Folding@Home is a distributed computing 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.
Application Details:
Developer: | Stanford University |
URL: | http://folding.stanford.edu/ |
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Version | Description | Latest Rating | Latest Wine version tested | Test results | Comments |
FahCore_78 | FahCore_78 | Gold | 0.9.31. | 2 | 0 |