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 Posted: Fri Jun 25, 2004 8:28 pm Post subject: Google Community Folding@Home Team |
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What is folding?
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. We use 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 our approach to examine folding related disease.
For more info on folding and how to join go to
http://www.stanford.edu/group/pandegroup/folding/
If you do decide to fold please join team number 37983 in our quest to find a cure for many harmful diseases.
How to start folding on the Google Community Team:
Download the software:
Download for Windows
Once downloaded, install the software.
Open software, right click F@H icon in system tray and choose configure. Enter your forum username and team number 37983. Let the application run when you aren't using your computer and let your unused CPU cycles help find a cure for a disease.
The statistics of the team are located here |
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Randy
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| Posted: Sat Jun 26, 2004 8:31 pm Post subject: |
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Come on, we need some people to start folding. It's completely safe and is for a good cause.
I have created a signature graphic, so if someone wants to use it, go ahead.
Also, the first Google Community member to reach 25 WUs will recieve a special gift of gratitude from me. |
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joshg678
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| Posted: Sat Jun 26, 2004 9:00 pm Post subject: |
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i reamber having something like that, something about dna or something, it may have been this same thing, but i thought i got like money, i forget what in the world it did, but it was fun, i'll do it when i get dsl, maby.
edit: this is what i have used before, it was cool to just watch it, lol, i think this was the same number i used too, cool.
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Randy
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| Posted: Sun Jun 27, 2004 8:00 am Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | i'll do it when i get dsl, maby |
Your connection speed doesn't affect it. The only thing that matters is your processor, except for the fact of downloading WU's to fold.
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| Posted: Sun Jun 27, 2004 10:05 am Post subject: |
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well what i mean by that is, i will have another computer hooked up to the internet when i get dsl, cause the router we have for it will have more ports on it, so i'll be able to have it running all the time, thats what i ment, just dident feel like explaining it. lol
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Randy
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| Posted: Sun Jun 27, 2004 5:00 pm Post subject: |
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| Also, every member that folds 15 WUs for Google Community will be recieving a Google Gmail invitation and an Orkut invitation. Thankyou. |
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mzruya
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| Posted: Sat Jul 03, 2004 2:50 pm Post subject: |
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almost everyone have gmail and orkut invites ..
maybe try something more tempting.. only 2 users have WU done!
I downloaded the program and started processing .. hope to be the first to reach 15  )) |
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joshg678
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| Posted: Sat Jul 03, 2004 3:02 pm Post subject: |
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i think i allready have 15, i forget, and what is orkut?
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Randy
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| Posted: Sat Jul 03, 2004 3:22 pm Post subject: |
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| joshg678 wrote: | | i think i allready have 15, i forget, and what is orkut? |
Uhh you actually have 0 WUs, and the minimum is 25 for an orkut invite, or buy it from the store. |
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| Posted: Thu Jul 22, 2004 7:38 pm Post subject: Glazer & the Buccaneers |
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| Thanks! The mails were from people on my Mobile Home Refinance allow list... |
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| Posted: Thu Jul 22, 2004 9:37 pm Post subject: |
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| it is time that i bring this to the notice of intelliot by PM |
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| Posted: Sat Jul 24, 2004 9:27 am Post subject: |
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| I'll try it out. But has anyone combed through the fine print to see if there are any privacy issues or what nots? |
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| Posted: Sat Jul 24, 2004 9:51 am Post subject: |
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Forget what I said...
How long does it take to complete one fold? |
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Randy
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| Posted: Sat Jul 24, 2004 12:16 pm Post subject: |
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| fb881 wrote: | Forget what I said...
How long does it take to complete one fold? |
one fold? one WU can take from a few minutes, to a few hours, to a few days, depending on how many frames are in it. read the folding faq at stanford for more info. |
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| Posted: Mon Dec 06, 2004 7:45 am Post subject: |
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I'm in.
Youll see me starting this or next week, Ive always wanted to join in with a @Home project.
And I was already thinking about folding@home but now we have a team Im right in to it.
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