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Active Projects - Biology & Medicine

Folding@home is one of the older protein simulation projects, and one of the few that does not use the BOINC Platform. It started on October 1st, 2000. If you want to see pictures and movies of proteins that have been simulated in the past, check them out here. The team has published over 75 papers.

The Folding@Home team began by simulating proteins such as an alpha helix, then HIV and a beta-beta-alpha fold and the villin headpiece. The predicted folding times for these proteins were quite close to the actual folding times for the molecules. After testing these results, the team knew that their simulation algorithm was on the right track. The team has proceeded to computational drug research, studies on cancerous tumor suppressors, and work on the folding of proteins and peptides in confined spaces.

Their current and completed projects deal with:

  • Alzheimer's Disease
  • Cancer
  • Huntington's Disease
  • Osteogenesis Imperfecta
  • Parkinson's Disease
  • Ribosome & antibiotics
 

Folding@home's Feed

  • FAH logo mosaic
    We wanted to find a way to express in a single picture the immense collective effort that FAH donors and FAH teams comprise. We had several ideas internally and this is one of my favorite: we made a photo mosaic...
  • Peptoids
    GUEST POST: Prof. Vincent Voelz, Temple University One of the projects we're excited about in the Voelz Lab is molecular simulation of synthetic polymers called peptoids. These are biomimetic molecules that can fold like proteins, but they have different structural...
  • Brief network outage – stats update down for 2 hours
    We will have a brief network outage in one of our server rooms today at 7pm PDT. This will not affect Folding@home other than to delay the normal hourly stats update. Once the outage is over, we will restart the...
  • Introducing the Voelz lab at Temple, a new member of the FAH Consortium
    GUEST POST: Prof. Vincent Voelz, Temple University The Voelz Lab just started this past August in the Department of Chemistry at Temple University in Philadelphia, PA. We have just installed two Folding@home servers, and are gearing up to run simulations...
  • Understanding the folding of hIAPP, the peptide linked to the Type 2 diabetes
    Here's an update from Prof. Xuhui Huang's lab at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, another collaborating labortory in the Folding@home consortium. In addition to the molecular recognition processes, another project his lab is working on at the Folding@home...
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