rosetta and folding@home?

[narreth]

What's the difference?

 

[rabrittain]

Rosetta@Home runs out of The University of Washington in Seattle and is a BOINC project.

Folding@Home is a Stanford project, not associated with BOINC. There is some other information, I believe on the "Comprehensive BOINC Project List".

 

[Alyx]

Both are essentially doing same thing but going about it different ways. There are a lot of different proteins out there so even if they are both working on same idea they're not repeating the work of the other. Or at least thats my understanding.

 

[Assimilator1]

Aren't they working on different diseases too?

Where's the experts on these?

[edit]
F@H have/are studying these diseases:-

- Which diseases or biomedical problems are you currently studying?
- Alzheimer's Disease (AD)
- Huntington's Disease (HD)
- Cancer and P53
- Osteogensis imperfecta
- Parkinson's Disease (PD)
- Antibiotics

From here

I'll check out R@H latter if no-one else has posted in the meantime. (I've gtg now).

 

[biodoc]

Both labs are developing their own algorithms for predicting protein structures. In fact, there are many academic labs that are developing similar algorithims. Periodically, they test their progress in a competition at CASP. The last competition, CASP7, is here.. The next competition, CASP8, is here.

Why so many labs working on predicting protein folding? It is a highly complex process and as in any other scientific research area, good old fashion competition drives progress. Scientists, for the most part, are highly competitive.

We hate getting beat by another lab!:evil:

 

[irishScott]

Rosetta@home seeks to improve the Rosetta protein folding software.

Folding@home studies protein folding in general with it's own algorithms.

Problem with the latter is that it takes WAY more computational power than R@H requires, hence the petaflop initiative and the PS3s.

 

[Assimilator1]

And according to this R@H is researching Malaria, Anthrax, HIV, Alzheimers & various cancers.

From the front page:-
You will also be helping our efforts at designing new proteins to fight diseases such as HIV, Malaria, Cancer, and Alzheimer's (See our Disease Related Research for more information[linked above]).

Lots more R@H info here.