Step1: Watch this : foldflash2
Step2: Read !
Our goal: to understand protein folding, misfolding, and related diseases
Step3: Come and join the F@H race and put those excess CPU cycles to use.
I invite you all to put your spare computer cycles to good use, and join in on the race.
Catch me if you can... (though I doubt anyone here can catch me )
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Step2: Read !
Our goal: to understand protein folding, misfolding, and related diseases
What is protein folding and how is folding linked to disease? Proteins are biology's workhorses -- its "nanomachines." Before proteins can carry out these important functions, they assemble themselves, or "fold." The process of protein folding, while critical and fundamental to virtually all of biology, in many ways remains a mystery.
Moreover, when proteins do not fold correctly (i.e. "misfold"), there can be serious consequences, including many well known diseases, such as Alzheimer's, Mad Cow (BSE), CJD, ALS, Huntington's, Parkinson's disease, and many Cancers and cancer-related syndromes.
You can help by simply running a piece of software. Folding@Home is a distributed computing project -- people from through out the world download and run software to band together to make one of the largest supercomputers in the world. Every computer makes the project closer to our goals.
Step3: Come and join the F@H race and put those excess CPU cycles to use.
I invite you all to put your spare computer cycles to good use, and join in on the race.
Catch me if you can... (though I doubt anyone here can catch me )
yoda123 - User Summary - EXTREME Overclocking Folding @ Home Stats