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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

Bioinformatics fans here is an update on Foldit by the Creators of Rosetta@home

  In this update the foldit crew does an update on the software on Deep mind and latest analysis on the  protein folding in relation to SARS-CoV-2 and MERS binder design as of New Years weekend 2021. This video will explain the folding mechanisms of the protein of interest in detail in relation to the folding project on foldit.