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.

You can help by simply running a piece of software.

Folding@home is a distributed computing project  people from
throughout the world download and run software to band together to make
one of the largest supercomputers in the world. Every computer takes the
project closer to our goals. Folding@home uses novel computational
methods coupled to distributed computing, to simulate problems millions
of times more challenging than previously achieved. "



Our team stats page, click here.

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Install Guide:

   Download client, click here. And then install it.[/li]
   Enter in team: 40965
   Enter your arfcom nick name.
   Program will finish install.
   On your desktop the program is called FAHControl. Run this.
   It will download a "work unit" and the start processing it, you will notice your PC fans kick on.
   It's all automatic from here, just let it run as long as you can.
   If you need to pause there is a control button on the taskbar, looks like multicolored blobs. Right click to show controls.

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Some things to know:

This will make use of 100% of your processor and/or GPU. You may experience a higher electrical bill, and wear and tear on your PC due to heat, so make sure your fans are clean and working. To run my GTX 1060 it costs in electricity $0.25 a day at $0.10 a kilowatt hour rates

How many PPD (points per day) can I expect from my PC with what GPU? est. (you can also double or triple these numbers with SLI or Crossfire)(some older ATI cards show low numbers, they were not optimized for folding and use more power)

Originally Posted By Klee:
I never ran the Folding@home client, I ran the Einstien@home one for a couple of years.

Sure miss the Seti@home client/screensaver, ran that on many pc's back in the day.

https://i.imgur.com/Xz1oKyJ.jpg

Edit someone made a 10 hour youtube video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1__tgQaB7I

Originally Posted By farfromhome:
I would help but all of my PCs are crypto mining lol. I remember doing this way back in 2004.