Folding@Home in Teamwork
Folding@Home is good, Folding@Home as a team is even better!
My team can be joined by putting the number 155224 in the team field in the client.
Here are some basic infos, if you do not know what Folding@Home is:
What is Folding@home? What is protein folding?
Folding@home is a distributed computing project, that very simply stated, studies protein folding and misfolding. Protein folding is explained in more detail in the scientific background section.
What is distributed computing?
Distributed Computing is a method of computer processing in which different parts of a program, or different portions of data, are processing simultaneously on two or more computers that are communicating with each other over a network or through the Internet.
Which diseases or biomedical problems are currently studied?
- Alzheimer’s Disease (AD)
- Huntington’s Disease (HD)
- Cancer and P53
- Osteogensis imperfecta
- Parkinson’s Disease (PD)
- Antibiotics
Let’s start folding!
Tags: FAH, Folding@Home, Playstation, PS3
Verenas Welt Blog | Verena 2008/12/02
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