Folding@Home S-Star2003 Team Home page (Team No. 32296)

What is it?

Folding@Home is a distributed computing project to use idle compuer time to simulate protein folding. Users download a console, graphical, or screensaver client program that uses idle cpu cycles to analyse raw protein structure data to model the 3-D structure.

Download the client here

Why?

Proteins are biology's workhorses -- its "nanomachines." Before proteins can carry out their biochemical function, they remarkably assemble themselves, or "fold." The process of protein folding, while critical and fundamental to virtually all of biology, remains a mystery. Moreover, perhaps not surprisingly, when proteins do not fold correctly (i.e. "misfold"), there can be serious effects, including many well known diseases, such as Alzheimer's, Mad Cow (BSE), CJD, ALS, and Parkinson's disease.

Folding@Home FAQ

Who we are?

We are participants in the 2003 S-Star online Bioinformatics course.

What is S-Star?

 S* (pronounced 'S Star') is a collaboration between the following universities and institutions:

University of Sydney, Australia,
Karolinska Institutet, Sweden,
University of Uppsala, Sweden,
National University of Singapore, Singapore,
University of the Western Cape, South Africa,
Stanford University, USA
University of California, San Diego , USA

The S* group of teaching institutions have formed a global alliance to provide a global, unified bioinformatics learning environment (GLOBULE) made up of modular courses in the disciplines of genomics, bioinformatics, and medical informatics.

The initial aims are to:

Mission

Our Mission is to provide anyone with an introductory course in bioinformatics. We hope this collection of S* bioinformatics lectures will be available to students anywhere through the internet , regardless of whether our classes are attended by individuals or in groups.

Click here to read more on articles published about the course.

For more information or enquiries, please email to general@s-star.org