Category: Science

There was a good question in the forum that I thought others would be curious to hear: From Vijay’s blog entries it would seem that the SMP client has some…

On Friday, Stanford launched the Pervasive Parallelism Lab (PPL).  There’s been lots of press describing it.  The general plan for the lab is to develop a common paradigm for programming…

We’ve teamed up with Simbios (an NIH Roadmap center at Stanford) to start making key technologies in Folding@home available for others to use.  Our protein folding work has been named…

In the near future, we will be releasing some new projects which require a very rapid turn-around time.  These are peptide fragment simulations which we are interested in simulating for…

Being an avid fan of the NFL, I do read a lot of the articles about the upcoming big game, such as this one http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/playoffs07/news/story?id=3208171 This one caught my eye…

Today, I’m going to post a nice summary of one major facet of FAH, the study of protein-ligand binding.  This issue is critical for computational drug design, and brings together…

Frontiers in Biotech is a radio interview show.  Some time ago I recorded an interview with them and it’s now available.  You can hear it at http://twit.tv/fib27 .  I’ve put…

Since Thursday was Thanksgiving in the US — a day when one eats lots of Turkey — I can’t resist talking about turkey and tryptophan. Every one knows what a…

We’ve been working to include more videos in our web pages.  The idea is to make them less dry, more alive, and more interesting.  We have several videos up, describing…

Today, I’ll start a new series of posts, where I talk about some of the concepts important for how FAH works, and also highlighted in our recent youtube posts.  Entropy…