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Greetings , The Folding Outcasts have a new Folding Team for Stanford Reasearch

What is Folding@Home?
Folding@Home is a "distributed computing" project. The distributing computing concept is a means of utilizing everyday computers that are owned by ordinary people like you and I, and uses any unused computer processing power towards solving specific problems for a specific project through a small program. There are several of these projects in existence; We feel the premiere effort is Folding@Home. The Folding@Home project is based out of Stanford University and is led by a scientist named Vijay Pande, with a supporting cast comprised of biology, chemistry and computer scientists all specializing in specific areas. The Folding@Home project is humanitarian in nature, and needs massive amounts of computational power which it uses to simulate and fully understand how our proteins "fold" from amino acids into complex shapes which determine how our bodies function. The goals of the project are to understand this folding process and to gain insight into why these proteins sometimes "mis-fold" and develop into diseases such as Alzheimer's, Mad Cow (BSE), CJD, ALS, and Parkinson's disease, to name a few. This is where we all come in: we have been given the means with which to participate in an important and meaningful research project that may ultimately unlock this age old mystery. All one must do to participate is download a small program and let it run. The program is designed to utilize any unused processor power and is kept at the lowest priority program on your computer, so it will surrender all processor power automatically when called upon by any other programs you may be using at that time so it will not effect your computer experience.

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How can you help?
You can help our project by downloading Download and running the client software, entering in a user name and our team number 40530, and simply letting the client run on your machine durring it's idle times. The software will automatically assign the proper credits to your personal and our team total.

Each additional CPU gives us an added boost in performance, allowing us to tackle more difficult problems or solve existing research faster or more accurately and score more points. Which means the more the merrier! So in short if you have a few spare cpu cycles, use your computers down time to help find a cure for cancer!

Project details:
What is Folding@Home?

Folding@Home is a distributed computing project which studies protein folding, misfolding, aggregation, and related diseases.Unlike other distributed computing projects, Folding@home is run by an academic institution (specifically the Pande Group, at Stanford University's Chemistry Department), which is a nonprofit institution dedicated to science research and education. They will not sell the data or make any money off of it.

Moreover, they will make the data available for others to use. In particular, the results from Folding@home will be made available on several levels. Most importantly, analysis of the simulations will be submitted to scientific journals for publication, and these journal articles will be posted on the web page after publication. Next, after publication of these scientific articles which analyze the data, the raw data of the folding runs will be available for everyone, including other researchers.

Please post any questions you may have , Sincearly, Glenn

This is where our Team Stats will be after you complete a work unit !!

http://vspx27.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py...e&teamnum=40530

Recruiting / explaining without scientific mumbo-jumbo



"Proteins are kinda like a piece of paper. You can fold a piece of paper into many different shapes. You can fold it into a paper airplane and fly it, fold it into a boat and float it, fold it into a hat and wear it, or simply leave it as it is and write on it. However, you wouldn't fly a hat, float an airplane or wear a boat. Each "shape" has its own use, even though it is the exact same piece of paper. Proteins are the same way, the exact same protein can take different shapes and perform different functions. The problem is, when you fold that paper airplane the wrong way, it won't fly properly and will crash. And, when that protein fold the wrong way, it crashes, but depending on the protein, it can cause a wide array of ailments such as Parkinson's, Alzheimers, Mad Cow, possibly cancers ... "

This helps people really understand just what it is doing without knowing all the scientific mumbo jumbo that none of us lay people understand.

(Posted on the Folding Forums for sharing)

Glenn

Exactly.

I for one, only like scientific mumbo-jumbo when it is computer-scientific type of mumbo jumbo.

How many people in the world really understand all of that amino-acid, nucleotide folding stuff?

About 1000!

Rob