Folding Proteins for Jesus
Maybe you shouldn’t actually put a “Folding Proteins for Jesus” bumper sticker on your car, really. That might be carrying things a little too far. But we have formed a new team for members of the Emerging Scholars Network (and any sympathetic friends) to pool our efforts as we participate in Stanford University’s Folding@Home project.
What is Folding@Home? We’ll let them speak for themselves:
Folding@Home is a distributed computing project which studies protein folding, misfolding, aggregation, and related diseases. We use novel computational methods and large scale distributed computing, to simulate timescales thousands to millions of times longer than previously achieved. This has allowed us to simulate folding for the first time, and to now direct our approach to examine folding related disease.
You can run it as a stand-alone application or as a screensaver. For lots of info about their project, please read Folding@Home’s own site, in particular their FAQ page. They’ll tell you how to download, install, and run the Folding@Home software.
And here’s all you need to know to give credit to the Emerging Scholars Network for all the work you do: enter our team ID number, 40831, into your Folding@Home software’s preferences. From then on, your number-crunching will join other ESN members’ efforts for the greater good.
To see how we’re doing so far, visit the ESN team page to get up-to-the-minute stats on who’s crunched how much. We hope we’ll see your numbers there soon!
Posted on: Dec 2, 2004
Last modified on: May 6, 2005
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