Folding@Home Team - Biology-Online.org

[Chris4]

http://folding.stanford.edu/

Use your computer power while its idle to help medical research. A distributed computer program to study protein folding. More info on website.

Anyone use it?

Installing it now and you can set up a team. Was going to set up Biology-Online.org. But thought I better check with everyone on here. Would be fun.

Im going to run it now and i'll tell if you if its any good.

[Kevin2k]

SO is it good?

[Zachthemac]

Yes. It's good. I've been doing it for a while. It's not disruptive and just sits in the taskbar and does its work. Biology-online should have a team. I would definitely join.

[mith]

I just setup a team
Team number:
44912

[Zachthemac]

Get to folding!
Download the program from here and install it. Make sure to use our team number above.

[Chris4]

Cool. I've joined. Same username.
Its good. Makes a great screensaver. This is my first project http://vspx27.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/allprojects#2000.
p2002. (at the very bottom). Its to do with the Alzheimer's peptide, thought to be responsible for nerve cell death in Alzheimer's Disease. Exciting stuff
Not sure when I will finish my first work unit as its quite big . At least a few days with my pc running 24/7.
What is everyone else working on?

[Zachthemac]

I'm folding a collagen protein.

Collagen is a major component of bone, skin, and other organs. It is in fact the most abundant protein in humans, taking a quarter of the protein mass.

I never knew that. I guess you learn something new everyday.

I have folding@home running on a 2.1 GHz and a 750 MHz ( ) computer, plus I'll probablly start running it on my XBOX if I get a chance.

[mith]

wow, that's a lot of projects. Mine's #2003....I dunno what it's testing for.

[b_d_41501]

This is awesome!! I'm doing p1146_L939_WT Tinker Core. I have no idea what that is, but i'm sure it's useful. lol

[Chris4]

This is awesome!! I'm doing p1146_L939_WT Tinker Core. I have no idea what that is, but i'm sure it's useful. lol

p means project so just go to here http://vspx27.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/allprojects#2000
And find your number. So mithrillhack if yours is p2003 its the one after mine.
p1146 - exploring the fleeting yet critical transition state region for transitions present for L939, the 39 residue fragment from the N terminal domain of ribosomal protein L9.
Must be important in ribosomes.

[b_d_41501]

Thanks for the explanation

[Poison]

Ok. I don't think I am clever enough to understand this stuff. Enjoy your job guys...