Folding At Home

Protein folding is linked to disease, such as Alzheimer's, ALS, Huntington's, Parkinson's disease, and many Cancers.

The Non Profit Organization has proudly joined the effort at Stanford University's Folding At Home project to help understand protein folding, misfolding, and related diseases.

What is protein folding?

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.
The Non Profit Organization is now assisting in the effort by using spare CPU power from our computers to help crunch the massive amounts of data this project requires.

You can easily view our TEAM PROGRESS in the project Here.

The global progress of the Stanford University project is available here.

WHAT CAN YOU DO TO HELP?

#1. > Download < this tiny snippet of program to your computer, install it. The software runs in the background on your computer, using idle CPU power. You won't even know it's there. Please tell your friends to do the same!

#2. Click the icon that was installed on your system, and in the configuration option, enter team number 175606.

#3. Please visit Project: THE MATRIX! The image above shows 8 Sony PS3 systems interlinked together, allowing their individual computing power to be clustered into a mini super computer. We aren't going to just provide some extra computing power. In fact, this has been the inspiration for a major new project that has never been attempted before!