Folding@home 20th Anniversary

Happy 20th Anniversary to the folding at home project crew. For those of you that are involved in the COVID-19 project for folding at home this was one of the bioinformatic projects that tried to look for the folding mechanisms for the SARS-CoV-2 virus. The contributions was that distribution computing over protein calculations over many users. This is one of the silver linings of 2020. However these projects were originally about examining cell biology among cancer cells and or proteins that are expressed in response to a genetic defect at the time of the projects founding. In the past year Folding@home and its competitors such as Rosetta@home, Foldit and World Community Grid have done the task on calculating the mechanisms of the SARS-COV-2 Virus that lead to the design of the COVID-19 vaccine. It was one of the contributing factors in accelerating the clinical trial process in the past year. Note this video is an interview of Folding @ Home's history back in the early 2000's with Vijay Pande and the founding team at F@H.

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