What can Thermodynamics tell us?
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…
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Nanomedicine center
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,…
Read morev6 making good progress
We’re finally set to start rolling out version 6 (v6) of Folding@home. You can download a beta version from our download page. There are several changes to v6, many under…
Read moreHow FAH works: Molecular dynamics
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…
Read moreMeet FAH team member Dan Ensign
Dan Ensign joined the group two years ago and has quickly become a key member of the Folding@home team. Dan’s work centers around one of the core scientific areas in…
Read moreHow FAH works: Folding on streaming processors (GPU's and PS3)
One of the critical issues in computer science right now is the limits to how fast a single CPU can calculate. While Moore’s law is still going strong in a…
Read moreMeet FAH team member Dr. Peter Kasson
Dr. Peter Kasson, MD, PhD has been working in the group for almost two years. Peter’s interests are in the area of lipid vesicle fusion, a process relevant for many…
Read moreHow FAH works: Markov State Models
This post may get a little technical, but I wanted to start a new set of posts describing the inner workings of Folding@home. To say FAH is complex is in…
Read moreMeet FAH team member Del Lucent
Del Lucent has been with the group for 3 years and has been working to understand how proteins fold in vivo (i.e. how they fold in cells and how that…
Read moreSAMPL challenge
Developing and applying new methods for computational drug design has become a major thrust for FAH as our methods have matured and developed. It’s become useful to test just how…
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