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Ah - This is incredible stuff! Pleae share more about the other distributed computing projects you are involved in. Love it! Meg -----Original Message----- From: William Smith <[log in to unmask]> To: PARKINSN <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Tue, Nov 29, 2011 2:24 am Subject: Protein Folding and Distributed Computing Is anyone familiar with Protein Folding and the distributed computing project alled Folding@Home? I don't know anything about the Folding, but I do participate in a distributed omputing project called World Community Grid which has similar procts. This from the website Folding @ Home: Protein folding is linked to disease, such as Alzheimer's, ALS, Huntington's, arkinson's disease, and many Cancers. oreover, when proteins do not fold correctly (i.e. "misfold"), there can be erious consequences, including many well known diseases , such as Alzheimer's, ad Cow (BSE), CJD, ALS, Huntington's, Parkinson's disease, and many Cancers and ancer-related syndromes. What is protein folding? roteins are biology's workhorses -- its "nanomachines." Before proteins can arry out these important functions, they assemble themselves, or "fold." The rocess of protein folding, while critical and fundamental to virtually all of iology, in many ways remains a mystery. Distributed computing: You can help scientists studying these diseases by simply running a piece of oftware. ome is a distributed computing project -- people from throughout the world ownload and run software to band together to make one of the largest upercomputers in the world. Every computer takes the project closer to our oals. Folding@home uses novel computational methods coupled to distributed omputing, to simulate problems millions of times more challenging than reviously achieved. Here is a link to the project at Stamford University.Folding@Hom : ttp://folding.stanford.edu/English/Main ---------------------------------------------------------------------- o sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] n the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn