Month: March 2014

As part of Folding@home, you know that proteins change their structures (e.g. transitioning from unfolded to folded conformations).  Once a protein is folded, it is very common to think of…

Part II: An In-depth Description of The Study For Readers With a Biomedical Background A guest post by Jingcheng Wu   More on c-src: what it is and its relations to…

Part I: A Brief Overview of The Study for The General Public Guest post from Jingcheng Wu. Cancer affects the general population in an extensive and intensive way. It accounts for…

Ms. Jingcheng Wu is a new team member, whose work is to help improve communications between FAH and its donors, especially explaining (in a non-technical way) what FAH has been…

We’d like to thank and congratulate all of our donors for helping us break the 40-PetaFLOP barrier.  We’ve been working hard to make it easier to run the client and…

Here is a guest post by Joseph Coffland, Folding@home Developer: We are very happy to announce the release of our latest Folding@home desktop client. This version sports a new streamlined…

We’ve had a large influx of GPU clients, including a big donation of time from a corporate partner, and we’ve run a bit low on GPUs late last night (pacific…

We’re grateful for all of the donations we get. Donors have often asked us for other ways to donate and we wanted to give a heads up on a new…

In our simulations, we use models (aka “force fields”) of how a protein’s atoms interact physically.  Recently, we’ve made an important advance in how to make these models, which will,…

Our paper “Activation pathway of Src kinase reveals intermediate states as targets for drug design” in Nature Communications has just come out.  As with Nature journals, it’s unfortunately behind a pay…