Together we are Even More Powerful: GPU folding gets a powerup with NVIDIA CUDA support!
Folding@home adds CUDA support to give NVIDIA GPUs big boosts in speed!
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Launching the Third Weekly Sprint for the COVID Moonshot!
We’re launching the third weekly compound prioritization sprint for the COVID Moonshot! This sprint focuses on our benzotriazole lead series. These compounds came about from a previous series of potent…
Read moreJoin the Second COVID Moonshot Weekly Sprint!
Help us reach our weekend goal so the COVID Moonshot can make rapid progress toward a COVID-19 therapy! The First COVID Moonshot Weekly Sprint has just come to a close!…
Read moreIntroducing COVID Moonshot weekly sprints: Help us discover a new therapy
Join our weekly sprints to prioritize compounds to make and test!
Read moreCitizen Scientists Create an Exascale Computer to Combat COVID-19
Maxwell I Zimmerman, Justin R Porter, Michael D Ward, Sukrit Singh, Neha Vithani, Artur Meller, Upasana L Mallimadugula, Catherine E Kuhn, Jonathan H Borowsky, Rafal P Wiewiora, Matthew F D Hurley, Aoife M Harbison, Carl A Fogarty, Joseph E Coffland, Elisa Fadda, Vincent A Voelz, John…
Read moreThe Covid Moonshot
Folding@home Consortium scientists have been working hard over the past three months to support experimental collaborators working to develop new therapies for COVID-19. One of these experimental collaborations is with the COVID Moonshot,…
Read moreGoing after the mysterious SARS-COV-2 Envelope protein
Ion channels act as doors for cells: they open and close to let in and out the particles that carry electrical charge, the ions. Ion channels are therefore at the…
Read moreNEW FOLDING@HOME SOFTWARE WITH THE OPTION TO PRIORITIZE COVID-19 PROJECTS
In response to popular demand, we have created an update to the Folding@home software that allows you to prioritize COVID-19 projects. We encourage you to upgrade as the new software…
Read moreNEW SIMULATIONS TO SEARCH FOR COVID-19 TREATMENT VIA REPURPOSING EXISTING NTP ANALOG DRUGS THAT TARGET VIRAL RNA REPLICATION
Coronavirus (CoV) has a capsid that envelops the single-stranded RNA genome. Three structural proteins are shown to be associated with the capsid: membrane, envelope, and the spike protein. Chemical compounds…
Read moreCAPTURING THE COVID-19 DEMOGORGON (AKA SPIKE) IN ACTION
The spike of the SARS-CoV-2 virus (shown below) is one particularly appealing target for designing therapeutics to combat the COVID-19 disease. It is actually comprised of three identical proteins arranged…
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