Folding

[ademster]

So.. I asked someone before a while back to explain exactly what Folding was..

he muble jumbled the info and didnt exactly explain what it was..

so for my stupidness....

Please explain what Folding really is/does!?

 

[Jon855]

Sorry for being a crude today... I'm fed up with my day so please do yourself a favor and go to http://folding.stanford.edu/ it's right there on the front page. And if there're any more questions, u can go to the FAQ section, it's sure to answer most of your questions.

 

[Kvothe]

Taken from here: http://www.hardfolding.com/index.php?go=2

Stanford's 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 disease.

What does Folding@Home do? Folding@Home is a distributed computing project which studies protein folding, misfolding, aggregation, and related diseases. Stanford uses 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 Stanford's approach to examine folding related disease.

How can you help? You can help Stanford's project by downloading and running their client software. Stanford's algorithms are designed such that for every computer that joins the project, Stanford gets a commensurate increase in simulation speed. For more information and to download the client go here Folding@Home Website

At the heart of all the science talk, folding is seeing how proteins behave in a variety of situations to see where they are beneficial and where they deform causing any number of things. Through folding, we're helping simulate these things so Stanford can see where things go haywire and hopefully someday lead to a cure for any number of diseases.

 

[[BRO]Alaskan]

Here is a link to a cool video that might help explain things.
http://www.teamshort-media.com/videos/foldflash2.html

 

[AtomicMoose]

Now, I see you...

 

[Pocatello]

ya

check out Stanford's site.


Folding is cool, mmmkay? you should fold, mmmkay?

I've been folding for 18 months. I have seven computers folding at home. I'm not allowed to fold at work due to work regulations. The boss is harsh, mmmkay?

Hope you start folding. And choose a [H]ard Team.

Team 33 FTW!

 

[Crosshairs]

Here is a link to a cool video that might help explain things.
http://www.teamshort-media.com/videos/foldflash2.html

Nice link....if I wasn't already folding I would start