What is "Folding"

Cygnus X1

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I see all these threads about "Folding Boxes" What the hell is "Folding"? Do I want to fold too?
 

Ameesh

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its referring to a process called protein folding, its basically medical research into why things fold or don't fold correctly
 

NanoStuff

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Originally posted by: Cygnus X1
Originally posted by: tfinch2
RTFM

http://folding.stanford.edu/

Is that it? Are there other folding projects?

There are a lot of folding projects around the world, but that's probably the only public one. It sure as hell beats SETI when it comes to putting your spare calculations to good use.

Once stanford gets their hands on shiny new quantum computers however the whole project will probably be obsolete :), but until then, it's good karma.