Article - What is Folding and Why Does it Matter?

seadave77

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• Jun 15, 2009

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A good article on the Folding@Home project. It goes into the details of protein folding, how the project works, and the results of the project now and in the future. Worth a read if you have time.

http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/graphics/2009/06/15/what-is-folding-and-why-does-it-matter/1

 

tgxiii

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• Jun 15, 2009

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I haven't gone through the entire article yet, but so far it looks great. Thanks for the link! This will make recruitment easier for me.

 

Jolly-Swagman

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• Jun 15, 2009

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Great Reading there seadave77, thanks for sharing, I think will be useful and informative for the newer members to Folding@home,

 

Voidn

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• Jun 15, 2009

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Definitely a good read as I'm new to all this. I know this is about medical research but I really like being part of the worlds largest distributed computing project (3.3 x the top super computer!). And what else is going to keep my rig busy when I'm not home?

 

harlam357

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• Jun 16, 2009

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Yes definitely... this needs to be saved into our material for reference.

OK... got the link, now to remember to post it somewhere in the material.