Scoobes said:
http://folding.stanford.edu/English/Papers Just under 70 publications. Unless you're going to do a lit review of the Folding@Home project, I don't think you're going to want to read through all that This is far more important then SETI@Home as its actually providing proper results and essential contributions to our knowledge of how proteins fold in different environments. I don't know how I can stress how important this project really is for the future, for understanding a range of protein related disease (cancers and prion diseases included) and how to cure them. If any of you do decide to read these and need help or info understanding some of the stuff give me an IM and I'll try to help you out. |
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For a clear example of how you have helped recently, in paper number sixty-nine, folding@home studied one of the proteins, hemagglutinin, that lets the flu virus attact and interact to human cells. This protein along with a handful of other surface proteins mutates often which is why there has to be a new flu vaccine every year. Since there is too many possibilities to go through by hand, folding@home, using complex statistics and your PS3s is setting up a framework where we can begin to predict which flu variants that are particularily dangerous like the H1N1 virus. So in a way you are helping cure influenza. :)
