Benefits from Folding?
Posted: Sat Dec 22, 2007 11:47 pm
Just curious, (I'm folding, so I'm not dissing it) how much has F@H accomplished? Have there been any major breakthroughs directly because of it?
Points means prizes! (lol, does anyone not from the UK get that?)
Awards won by the folding inventor guys: http://folding.stanford.edu/English/AwardsWHAT HAVE WE DONE SO FAR AND WHERE ARE WE GOING?
Folding@Home has been a success. We have folded several small, fast folding proteins, with experimental validation of our method. We are now working to further develop our method, and to apply it to more complex and interesting proteins and protein folding and misfolding questions.
Since then, Folding@Home has studied more complex proteins, reporting on the folding of many proteins on the microsecond timescale, including BBA5, the villin headpiece, Trp Cage, among others.
More recently, we have been putting a great deal of effort into studying proteins relevant for diseases, such as Alzheimer's, Hunntington's, and Osteogenesis Imperfecta.
You can learn more about our results, on our Results Page and you can see specific , peer-reviewed scientific achievements on our Papers Page.
Papers written from the folding research: http://folding.stanford.edu/English/Papers