Folding@home (F@H) is a distributed computing project designed to perform computationally intensive simulations of protein folding and other molecular dynamics in order to improve medical research methods. The program was launched on October 1, 2000, and is currently managed by the Pande Group at Stanford University's chemistry department.
In 2007 Guinness recognized Folding@home as the most powerful distributed computing cluster in the world.
Folding@home is one of the world's largest distributed computing projects working on the scientific study to
understand protein folding and misfolding.
The understanding of the protein folding process and how biological molecules assemble themselves into their functional state is one of the largest problems of molecular biology. Protein folding is a continuous and universal process where the long, coiled strands of amino acids fold into more complex three-dimensional structure. By understanding how proteins fold and what structures they are likely to be in their final form, researchers are able to get closer in predicting their function.
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