I don't have a chance in post count, or in low member number, so, how about whoever has the most folds. That makes me the 26th best person here, take that Sam, and you better watch out, ludosti.
This would solve so many problems, the newbies could finally be accepted into the Hatrack society, we would help science, and all those post-whores would be nothing but, well, whores.
[ January 11, 2004, 01:53 PM: Message edited by: Liquor and Fireworks ]
Posted by Da_Goat (Member # 5529) on :
Um, I don't get it. What's that about?
Posted by Annie (Member # 295) on :
Oh, I forgot about my folding! well, the icon isn't there anymore so it must have sent itself back. I hope.
Posted by pooka (Member # 5003) on :
Is that the protein folding project? For some reason I'm not comfortable with it. My DVD burner already mysteriously fails half the time for no apparent reason, I don't need to be donating my resources at this point.
Da- DNA (through RNA) makes proteins as a sequence but the way in which they fold from there needs to be figured out. We know all the DNA of the human genome, but this project is to help figure out what it does. That, at least, is my understanding.
Posted by Liquor and Fireworks (Member # 5785) on :
quote: Our goal: to understand protein folding, protein aggregation, and related diseases
What are proteins and why do they "fold"? Proteins are biology's workhorses -- its "nanomachines." Before proteins can carry out their biochemical function, they remarkably assemble themselves, or "fold." The process of protein folding, while critical and fundamental to virtually all of biology, remains a mystery. Moreover, perhaps not surprisingly, when proteins do not fold correctly (i.e. "misfold"), there can be serious effects, including many well known diseases, such as Alzheimer's, Mad Cow (BSE), CJD, ALS, and Parkinson's disease.
What does Folding@Home do? Folding@Home is a distributed computing project which studies protein folding, misfolding, aggregation, and related diseases. We use novel computational methods and large scale distributed computing, to simulate timescales thousands to millions of times longer than previously achieved. This has allowed us to simulate folding for the first time, and to now direct our approach to examine folding related disease.
I'm doing pretty well considering I haven't folded in months. I would like it to be noted that Zevlag has not passed me up, despite his claims that he would fairly soon after he began.
[ January 11, 2004, 02:38 PM: Message edited by: Jeni ]
Posted by Liquor and Fireworks (Member # 5785) on :
quote: Oh, I forgot about my folding! well, the icon isn't there anymore so it must have sent itself back. I hope.
Nope, that just means it isn't turned on, there should be a Folding@Home folder in your start menu where you can turn it back on, and you can out a shortcut to it in the startup folder to make it always start when turning on your computer.