Just wondering if anybody in this forum uses folding@home or have heard about it.
It is a program made by the stanford university which uses your CPU's unused cycles to process the way protein strands 'fold' hence folding@home.
Now you may ask why do it?
Well for one thing, no matter how lazy you are you can surely sit at your pc and take a few mins to install it, but the main reason is because the 'folding' of these strands can determine if you get a disease or not. For example, if you proteins 'fold' normally you will funcion normally, but when they misfold, it can cause all kinda of diseases like cancer and mad cow disease.
Now im not the best at explaining it, so if you would like to learn more and download this program to help out go to: http://folding.stanford.edu/
So if you want to know anything more that site should answer all your questions. Ive been folding for about 1 and a half years now and if you get in a team, it can be a little bit of competition too.
FaLLeN
It is a program made by the stanford university which uses your CPU's unused cycles to process the way protein strands 'fold' hence folding@home.
Now you may ask why do it?
Well for one thing, no matter how lazy you are you can surely sit at your pc and take a few mins to install it, but the main reason is because the 'folding' of these strands can determine if you get a disease or not. For example, if you proteins 'fold' normally you will funcion normally, but when they misfold, it can cause all kinda of diseases like cancer and mad cow disease.
Now im not the best at explaining it, so if you would like to learn more and download this program to help out go to: http://folding.stanford.edu/
So if you want to know anything more that site should answer all your questions. Ive been folding for about 1 and a half years now and if you get in a team, it can be a little bit of competition too.
FaLLeN
) and left me with my piece oh shi* laptop which would probably explode if i try running anything more than windows on it 