Folding@home: How Your Computer Can Help Fight Diseases
Folding@home is a distributed computing project that uses the processing power of volunteers' computers to simulate protein folding and other molecular dynamics. This project is run by the Pande Lab at Stanford University, and is one of the largest distributed computing networks in the world. The goal of Folding@home is to understand how proteins fold, misfold, and interact with other molecules, in order to develop new treatments for diseases such as Alzheimer's, cancer, and COVID-19.