2002-10-06 23:07:13 -04:00
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[ excerpt from developer's site ]
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2002-12-19 13:33:55 -05:00
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This is the distributedfolding.org's client.
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2002-10-06 23:07:13 -04:00
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It makes protein structures to help sample the enormous size of
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protein conformatoinal space. We hope to find a few good samples
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and understand how a large computation can help crack the problem
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of predicting protein structure - the protein folding problem.
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Proteins have a vast number of folds, larger than we could hope to
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compute even with distributed computing. Usually only one fold is
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found in nature. The Distributed Folding Project aims to test our
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new protein folding algorithm. We want see if it can reproduce
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natural protein folds after making extremely large samples of many
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different folds.
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With your help, we will create the largest samples of protein folds
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ever computed. First we will make 1 Billion (1,000,000,000) folds
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for 5 small proteins, then we will try 10 Billion (10,000,000,000)
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for another 10 large proteins. By the end of our first phase, we
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hope to make over 100 Billion protein folds spanning 15 different
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proteins.
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WWW: http://www.distributedfolding.org/
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