Category: Science

We’ve been working with two high school teachers (David Paynter and Aminah Bilal) to give a full introduction to Folding@home for those with little or no science background.  We’ve made…

I’ll start highlighting some of our key results from FAH in this blog.  I’ll start with our most recent paper (paper #52  Control of Membrane Fusion Mechanism by  Lipid Composition:…

We’ve been working hard to update our FAQ’s.  We’ve gotten a great deal of help from many people both within the Pande group and outside.  7im (FAH forum moderator) has…

For those that are local to the Stanford area and are interested in hearing more about Folding@home, I’ll be speaking at the "Life in Motion" symposium this Thursday.  You can…

Running and further enhancing FAH is quite involved these days.  We’ve come a long way from the days were it was mainly me and just 2-3 other people.  Right now,…

We’ve been putting a lot of effort into studying the ribosome.  The ribosome is particularly important for proteins — it’s where the messenger RNA (mRNA) is converted into proteins, i.e.…

What causes proteins to fold?  This is a complex question, but there are some rules of thumb that have been learned especially for how proteins behave in vitro (eg in…

Thermodynamics (and it’s "older brother" statistical mechanics — but I’ll refer to both as Thermodynamics) plays a very important role in what we do.  I thought I’d talk a little…

Our lab is part of an NIH roadmap center for Nanomedicine.  The basic idea of the nanomedicine roadmap centers is to use nanotechnology and other advances in chemistry, structural biology,…

Molecular dynamics (MD) is a major part of FAH.  Most (but not all) of the FAH cores are MD engines.  The basic idea behind MD is to simulate reality by…