Foldit – A game that contributes to protein folding research

Re:Foldit – A game that contributes to protein folding research by pharke on Tuesday December 30, 2014 @09:13PM (#8817966)

Related: You can also donate your spare CPU/GPU cycles to similar projects with http://folding.stanford.edu/

Someone's even trying to make the points awarded for time spent folding into a basis for a crypto currency http://foldingcoin.net/

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Re:Foldit – A game that contributes to protein folding research by nullc on Wednesday December 31, 2014 @06:10AM (#8818935)

Last I heard the "folding" distributed computation projects were mostly only being used to publish papers on distributed computation; and not really to advance medical science... (In contrast to Foldit)

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Re:Foldit – A game that contributes to protein folding research by ris on Wednesday December 31, 2014 @05:18AM (#8818819)

False economy. "CPU/GPU cycles" are only ever "spare" if you have free power.

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