folding@home / stanford folding project

What is protein folding and how is folding linked to disease? Proteins are biology's workhorses -its "nanomachines." Before proteins can carry out these important functions, they assemble themselves, or "fold." The process of protein folding, while critical and fundamental to virtually all of biology, in many ways remains a mystery.  Moreover, when proteins do not fold correctly (i.e. "misfold"), there can be serious consequences, including many well known diseases, such as Alzheimer's, Mad Cow (BSE), CJD, ALS, Huntington's, Parkinson's disease, and many Cancers and cancer-related syndromes.


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On April 15, 2004 Genome servers were shutted down and the project Genome@Home has officially come to end.
Team Virg0_Genome_Project has ended with rank #144, that was a great goal for everyone of us and I wanted to thank everyone for their support and time (and cpus work) dedited to the Project itself; I think we had contributed a bit to help science mapping the human genome.

And now the Virg0_Folding_Project is up and running, currently hanging up with two single machines.