Chromodynamic wrote:The University of Washington has a similar program, in case you have even more processing power to spare. There's an article at the website that illustrates the difference between the two as well.. I think.

ebeam wrote:Man, have any of you seen the PS3 version of this? It is so cool...you can see all the little iterations, replete with quirky sound effects and watch the proteins fold before your eyes.

Earwicker wrote:What the fuck is Protein Folding?

Accurate simulations of protein folding and misfolding enable the scientific community to better understand the development of many diseases, including Alzheimer's disease, BSE (mad cow disease), cancer, Huntington's disease, cystic fibrosis and other aggregation-related diseases. [2] More fundamentally, understanding the process of protein folding — how biological molecules assemble themselves into a functional state — is one of the outstanding problems of molecular biology. So far, the Folding@home project has successfully simulated folding in the 5-10 microsecond range — a time scale thousands of times longer than it was previously thought possible to model.