Mis-folding proteins are thought to cause several types of cancers and a number of diseases such as Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and Huntington's.
If you have any of the hardware mentioned above, you can help with this project pretty easily. Right now, the combined efforts of everyone currently participating has surpassed Four Peta-Flops of continuous computation. That's more than any supercomputer on the planet, outside of DARPA.
FreeRepublic participates in this effort as F@H Team #36120, Free Republic Folders - A Tribute to Ronald Reagan. This team left DU's similar efforts in the dust, long ago. The current FR Thread for this effort is here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2063306/posts
Freeper texas booster has long included lots of help and useful links in these threads, like this one here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2063306/posts?page=5#5
Join us! The mind you save might be important to you!
