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I just joined the Grid after reading a full article in the New York Times.
I though that it was an incredible and novel idea but searching on the Internet I found the Folding@home project at Stanford University. In this project there are already 168,000 CPUs churning data. What is the difference between this effort and other GRID projects in the health sciences arena? |
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Folding@home and the Human Proteome folding project are VERY-
VERY-VERY different. Folding@home aims to get at the science of how a small number of proteins of KNOWN structure fold dynamically. Folding@home is a project to further understanding of the folding process itself. They use a technique termed "molecular dynamics". The Human Proteome Folding Project (this project) will predict the structures of proteins of UNKNOWN-structure, lots of them, tons of them. The aim of this project is to get structures and functions for huge numbers of proteins so that biologists and biomedical researchers who run into these mystery proteins in their research can look to our database for functional/mechanistic clues about their favorite mystery-proteins. Both projects are good stuff, one is for Physics peeps and one is for biologists… For more info on all this stuff see our site (including pictures of proteins): http://www.systemsbiology.org/Default.aspx?pagename=humanproteome |
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Both projects are good stuff, one is for Physics peeps and one is for biologists… It looks to me like most of F@H's results are in biology journals http://folding.stanford.edu/papers.html unless you consider the people who run Journal of Molecular Biology Physics peeps  |
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