Idle computer time to save lives
By Reinhardt
@Reinhardt (66)
Canada
March 9, 2009 7:45pm CST
Hello, I am new to mylot and would like to contribute to medical science by spreading the word about folding@home. This is by no means a new idea, but alot of people have never heard of it, or know what it is.. The folding client which can be downloaded from the folding@home website uses your CPU or gpu power to "fold" proteins and send results to stanford school of medicine. The whole process is helpfull in our fight against uncurable diseases such as; cancer, parkinsons, als, and more.
The project also allows donors to register teams and compete for the most proteins folded. If there is enough interest in this, why not start a mylot folding@home team..
of course the application and team registeration is free as it is a none profit organisation.
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3 responses
@Reinhardt (66)
• Canada
10 Mar 09
Sorry, I wasnt sure if it was within mylot rules to link other websites. www.folding.stanford.edu
@Mike_Timmins (8)
• United States
10 Mar 09
Iactualy run the program. Its kind of nea to watch the shapes form up if you have it set to run your screen saver.
@Reinhardt (66)
• Canada
10 Mar 09
Glad to hear it. Any contribution to this project helps our fight to cure cancer.
@Reinhardt (66)
• Canada
10 Mar 09
In the download section of the folding@home webpage download the client best suited to your pc. To create a team look in the "stats" section of the web page. I am currently folding for team 'steampowered', But will fold a few work units under the mylot team.
To get used to the process you can simply just download it and run it to see how it works, if you think its some thing your interested in, I say lets go for it.
