Folding@Home
Folding@Home (folding.stanford.edu) is the first 'distributed computing' project that has led to a research paper published in a top scientific journal. Its aim is to use the spare computational power of thousands of computers to simulate the way proteins are made.
Understanding how proteins fold will likely have a great impact on understanding a wide range of diseases and although Protein S Deficiency is not yet singled out for any special attention by the Folding@Home project it is nevertheless very significant that Protein Science is being advanced in such a novel and successful way.
Ive downloaded this programme and have started helping, even if only on a small scale!
Thought i'd share the details so anyone else interested can do the same.
Here's a news article on the subject
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/2349247.stm
