With AusFMs member base reaching almost 400 members Australia wide and being of our charitable nature it was decided early Febuary 2010 that AusFM will contribute to the Stanford University Folding@Home protein folding program to understand protein folding, misfolding, and related diseases.
What is protein folding?
Proteins are biology's workhorses -- its "nanomachines." Before proteins can carry out these important functions, they assemble themselves, or "fold." The process of protein folding, while critical and fundamental to virtually all of biology, in many ways remains a mystery
Protein folding is linked to Cancers
Moreover, when proteins do not fold correctly (i.e. "misfold"), there can be serious consequences, including many well known diseases, such as Alzheimer's, Mad Cow (BSE), CJD, ALS, Huntington's, Parkinson's disease, and many Cancers and cancer-related syndromes.
Help scientists studying these diseases by simply running a piece of software.
Folding@home is a distributed computing project, people from throughout the world download and run software to band together to make one of the largest supercomputers in the world. Every computer takes the project closer to our goals. Folding@home uses novel computational methods coupled to distributed computing, to simulate problems millions of times more challenging than previously achieved.
Join the AusFM Masonic Folding Team now.
Download the Folding@Home client from here, upon install completion you will be prompted for your username and team number the AusFM Folding@Home team number is 181652 and enter any username you wish, to help us keep track please use your forum name making it easier to contact you if needed.
From all of the AusFM Staff we thank you for reading this page, even if you do not join the team. Please consider it, as you are able to run it on many computers and who knows you might finally be able to knock Dexv (Matthew13 our Web Master) off the top spot.
Martin Luther King
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
