Proteing Folding and PS3

Protein Folding and PS3

There is a project that’s been going on at Stanford for quite a while now, trying to figure out protein folding. Protein folding is the process in which proteins assemble themselves before running important functions. When this process doesn’t work properly, we get all kinds of illnesses, including Alzheimer’s.

So these people at Stanford have a simple client that you can download, and it makes your computer part of a huge supercomputer helping to crunch numbers while it’s idle (I suggest downloading the zip and then running the exe from a local folder).

The cool part is that there is also a client for PS3, so you can help while you’re not playing. You see, video games are not necessarily the source of evil in this world!

Now back to Niko and GTA.