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Old 10-13-2004, 09:50 AM   #27
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Originally posted by drfish
Folding@Home is a distributed computing project run by Standford University with the goal of discovering how protiens assemble or fold as part of an effort to cure various diseases such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson’s which occur when protiens assemble incorrectly or misfold...
..and the teams mentioned are groups of people competing with other groups over who can crunch the most data.
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