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Title: Want to help find a cure for Alzheimer’s and Parkinsons? Post by: Saved_4ever on October 08, 2003, 08:02:07 AM Come help me Fold! What is folding you ask?
http://www.techreport.com/etc/folding/ (http://www.techreport.com/etc/folding/) Folding at Home is a distributed client computing effort by Stanford University intended to help understand how proteins assemble or "fold." Exactly how proteins assemble themselves is a mystery, and why the proteins sometimes fold improperly or "misfold" is also a mystery. Quite a few serious diseases are related to the misfolding of proteins, such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease, to name two. By donating your CPU's spare cycles, you are contributing to the effort to understand how the proteins fold, which is the first step to understanding how basic proteins work and how we might treat these diseases. You can download the small program here (http://folding.stanford.edu/download.html). It won't interfere with anything on your PC. It only works with the spare power you aren't using. If you do decide to give it a shot let me know. Just PM me so that I know and can thank you. Also if you seem to have some sort of technical diffculties I can help you out. When you install it it will ask for a username and team number. Enter Atryus28 for the name and 2630 for the team. Here are some other links about folding and what it does. http://folding.stanford.edu/results.html (http://folding.stanford.edu/results.html) http://www.stanford.edu/group/pandegroup/folding/ (http://www.stanford.edu/group/pandegroup/folding/) http://www.stanford.edu/group/pandegroup/folding/science.html (http://www.stanford.edu/group/pandegroup/folding/science.html) It's all for a good cause and puts some more use into your PC. Thanks |