Re:Because IBM are control freaks? (Score 1)

There are large differences between the Human Proteome Folding Project and folding@home. Folding@home aims to get at how a few proteins of KNOWN structure fold dynamically. Folding@home is a project to further our understanding of the folding process itself. Understanding why protein folding works (and why it doesn't) could have a significant impact in certain diseases like Alzheimer's and Hunntington's Disease, which Folding@Home is actively studying. The Human Proteome Folding Project will predict the structures of large numbers of proteins of UNKNOWN-structure. The aim of this project is to get structures and functions for huge numbers of proteins so that biologists and biomedical researchers who run into these mystery proteins in their research can look to our database for functional/mechanistic clues about their favorite mystery-proteins. Both projects are good stuff but have very different objectives. For more info on all this stuff see our site: http://www.systemsbiology.org/Default.aspx?pagenam e=humanproteome