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GeSomeone

Jan 21 2005, 05:51

Because some hydrogenaudio members have formed a folding@home team it might be of interest that a (small but important) result was published.
News at folding@home, Abstract of publication.

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here's a brief summary of our results. Roughly half of all known cancers result from mutations in p53. Our first work in the cancer area examines the tetramerization domain of p53. We predict how p53 folds and in doing so, we can predict which amino acid mutations would be relevant. When compared with experiments, our predictions have appeared to agree with experiment and give a new interpretation to existing data.

(early history of the HA folding team)

boojum

Jan 21 2005, 12:36

The Folding project is an easy and painless way to make the world a better place. It appeals to the geek in me and the shameless idealist who still believes the world could be better despite the current political climate. I am active in F@H. While contributing does cost something - a few dollars a month in electricity - it is way less than what I spend on coffee in a week.

Anyone who has any interest in supporting research which can make our lives better, all of our lives, should consider this worthy project.

/sermon off

emtee

Jan 21 2005, 13:10

Great news

Congratulations to cmokruhl, the #1 user at the Hydrogenaudio.org team with a score of 77116.

DreamTactix291

Jan 22 2005, 03:48

Well considering when this was started here I wasn't around yet I just joined up and now have it running. I'd rather have my CPU doing something personally and this is something I feel is worth it

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