- Apr 23, 2001
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I've read this on the R@H site:
Dr David Baker "The Rosetta@home project goals are very different from those of Folding@home. The goal of Folding@home, I believe, is to determine how long proteins take to fold, given the sequence of the protein and knowledge of its three dimensional structure. The goal of Rosetta@home is to predict the three dimensional structure from the amino acid sequence."
Dr David Kim "Our project is similar to Predictor@home, in that we are trying to improve our methods by conducting research that is only possible with the computing power that a grid computing project can provide."
I read that and I can see that there is a difference between the projects, but I don't fully understand that difference. The way I see it, they're both studying proteins to potentially cure some diseases.
What am I missing?
EDIT: I'm sure this has probably been posted before, but I'll be damned if I can get the search function to work.
Dr David Baker "The Rosetta@home project goals are very different from those of Folding@home. The goal of Folding@home, I believe, is to determine how long proteins take to fold, given the sequence of the protein and knowledge of its three dimensional structure. The goal of Rosetta@home is to predict the three dimensional structure from the amino acid sequence."
Dr David Kim "Our project is similar to Predictor@home, in that we are trying to improve our methods by conducting research that is only possible with the computing power that a grid computing project can provide."
I read that and I can see that there is a difference between the projects, but I don't fully understand that difference. The way I see it, they're both studying proteins to potentially cure some diseases.
What am I missing?
EDIT: I'm sure this has probably been posted before, but I'll be damned if I can get the search function to work.