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Folding@home is a distributed computing project -- people from throughout
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the world download and run software to band together to make one of the
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largest supercomputers in the world. Every computer takes the project
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closer to our goals.
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Folding@home uses novel computational methods coupled to distributed
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computing, to simulate problems millions of times more challenging than
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previously achieved.
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Protein folding is linked to disease, such as Alzheimer's, ALS,
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Huntington's, Parkinson's disease, and many Cancers. Moreover, when
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proteins do not fold correctly (i.e. "misfold"), there can be serious
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consequences, including many well known diseases, such as Alzheimer's,
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Mad Cow (BSE), CJD, ALS, Huntington's, Parkinson's disease, and many
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cancers and cancer-related syndromes.
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WWW: http://folding.stanford.edu/
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