Networking will be upgrading the switches next Thursday 10/11 during their maintenance window between 5am to 6am pacific time. During this period, FAH will experience a network interruption for about…
Read moreRelly Brandman is a graduate student in the Chemical and Systems Biology Department at Stanford. This department was originally called the Molecular Pharmacology Department and it still has a tradition…
Read moreWe’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.…
Read moreWhat 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…
Read moreOne of the remarkable strengths of thermodynamics is that it is in many ways more general than many of the laws of physics. One of the key concepts in thermodynamics…
Read moreThermodynamics (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…
Read moreOur 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 moreWe’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 moreMolecular 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 moreDan 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…
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