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Bokal said:
Any place where we could see the actual results of the studies?

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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Sardauk said:
CGI-Quality said:
Bokal said:
Sardauk said:
CGI-Quality said:
Sardauk said:
I had it on my PC, never saw it on PS3 (but that is no suprise if you have to go via HOME...sigh..).

Um, it's on the XMB, you don't have to go through HOME

 

Where ?

It's in Life with Playstation now. Which is as far as I remember in the same row as the browser.

Right. Or for those who haven't downloaded it to the system, it'll say Folding @ Home on the XMB. Like he says, it's pretty basic which is why I'm baffled that he didn't know where to look...

I don't use the browser on the PS3... must be why...

"Life with Playstation" is a strange concept to me...

Yea, it's sad they only let it at a concept state.

I have a lot of ideas to make it better, like a more useful configurable weather tool, the ability to select RSS for the info, webcams, or flickr photos from around the world.

As of yet, it's pretty useless. Only the "radio" is nice to listen. And the visuals is great.

 



They will know Helgan belongs to Helghasts

I used to use it all the time, not so much anymore.



4 ≈ One

I use this all the time. Help cure some diseases guys. I know I may not this may not be a lot compared to some other people but I've done 50 work titles so far :D.



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Sardauk said:
CGI-Quality said:
Bokal said:
Sardauk said:
CGI-Quality said:
Sardauk said:
I had it on my PC, never saw it on PS3 (but that is no suprise if you have to go via HOME...sigh..).

Um, it's on the XMB, you don't have to go through HOME

 

Where ?

It's in Life with Playstation now. Which is as far as I remember in the same row as the browser.

Right. Or for those who haven't downloaded it to the system, it'll say Folding @ Home on the XMB. Like he says, it's pretty basic which is why I'm baffled that he didn't know where to look...

I don't use the browser on the PS3... must be why...

"Life with Playstation" is a strange concept to me...

are you sure you have a playstation 3 or a polystation 3?



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I use it sometimes when playing music.



Scoobes said:
Bokal said:
Any place where we could see the actual results of the studies?

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.

 

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. :)



If Folding@Home cured cancer Sony would be so respected



just tried it out its kinda cool



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Folding at home is more like a contribution to research, without the ability to get tax credits. I'm sorry, but if I'm going to be increasing my annual electricity bill by hundreds of dollars a year, I would like to get something out of it. It makes more sense for me to donate a few hundred dollars to cancer research, that way I actually get a tax rebate.