http://www.stanford.edu/group/pandegroup/folding/
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Our goal: to understand protein folding, protein aggregation, and related diseases
What are proteins and why do they "fold"? Proteins are biology's workhorses -- its "nanomachines." Before proteins can carry out their biochemical function, they remarkably assemble themselves, or "fold." The process of protein folding, while critical and fundamental to virtually all of biology, remains a mystery. Moreover, perhaps not surprisingly, when proteins do not fold correctly (i.e. "misfold"), there can be serious effects, including many well known diseases, such as Alzheimer's, Mad Cow (BSE), CJD, ALS, and Parkinson's
How do you help? Install this little client on your machine... and basically it sits there using your spare CPU time and helps figure proteins out for scientists by running simulations.
You can download the client here:
http://www.stanford.edu/group/pandegroup/f...g/download.html
I have created a "team" for 914club - our team number is 33589. If you enter this, all work that we do as a club gets credited to us so we get to compete with the other teams. The largest team has about 300 CPUs. I am working on getting 4 up and running (computer geek).
The websites above have lots of info on what is what, and I will try and help here.