Two new key results
We have two papers (one that just came out in PNAS and one that's about to come out in Physical Review Letters — papers #74 and #75 on our papers…
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Paper #72: Major new result from Folding@home: simulation of the millisecond timescale
Simulating protein folding on the millisecond timescale has been a major challenge for many years. When we started Folding@home, our first goal was to break the microsecond barrier. This barrier…
Read moreRelease of new Protomol (Core B4) WUs
As announced some time ago we have been working on a new core (Protomol core B4), and it has been looking good in QA so we have started to release…
Read moreIMAG meeting today — The Impact of Modeling on Biomedical Research
I'm at NIH today for the IMAG meeting on the Impact of Modeling on Biomedical Research. IMAG stands for the Interagency Modeling and Analysis Group and it constitutes all of…
Read moreFAH work highlighted in Biomedical Computing Review
Two key parts of FAH technology — OpenMM (the software that powers FAH on GPUs) and MSMbuilder (the algorithms that FAH uses to stitch together hundreds of thousands of donor…
Read moreImportance of software and data integrity
The scientific code underlying our research has a lot of dials and switches. It can be very tempting to play with those switches to optimize the calculations. However, many of…
Read moreA new type of work unit
We are preparing for the public release of a new work unit category: extra-large advanced methods work units. Some background information is provided below; we'll update this thread with more details as…
Read moreMD Workshop
Next week, we will be having a Molecular Dynamics (MD) workshop (see http://simbios.stanford.edu/calendar.htm for details) for three main pieces of Folding@home-related software, namely OpenMM (the GPU acceleration code behind the FAH GPU…
Read moreFolding@home talk at PARC today, 4pm
Today (January 8, 2008) at 4pm, I'll be giving a talk at PARC, giving an update about Folding@home. If anyone is local to the Palo Alto area, you can be…
Read moreNew paper #61: Computational screen to identify important mutations in influenza
We're happy to announce a new Pande Group paper (paper #61 at https://foldingathome.org/English/Papers). This paper describes a new computational screen to identify important mutations in influenza: Combining Mutual Information with…
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