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Originally Posted by Schnabel
I don't know what it is, but I'm in!  |
It's a distributed computing program to simulate protein folding. Proteins fold as part of their assembly, and the root of multiple diseases can be attributed to proteins that misfold. By simulating proper protein folding, as well as misfolding, we can learn more about the diseases that are caused by it. Problem is how much happens and how many calculations it takes -- would take all of the supercomputers at Stanford a couple months to simulate one nanosecond of one protein folding. Since that's not an option, they turned to distributing the computations -- hence distributed computing. We're donating cycles to the research.