Protein folding?
Particles?
Trajectory?
WTF?
I thought my computer was working on folding paper for a better airplane for the pro team.
Never mind.
Actually it is amazing how great are the variations on what folks think that F@H really is. I get asked all kinds of questions but most of them are pretty good.
For those that like to understand the science behind F@H will be thrilled to know that there is real science behind it.
I remember how often that Greenies thought that we could completely model nuclear weapons via computer simulations, and that there would never be a need for testing. Pulling back the covers on a complex project like F@H shows how difficult it really is to simulate ANY complex system, be it nuclear weapons or cellular biology.
One nanosecond of protein folding can take years of computing resources. That is for a single protein, simulating a single interaction, and with major allowances for water modeling on the molecule.