I'm a scientist at Southern Research Institute in Maryland, USA. I've written on this subject before, but I deem it necessary to show people that Folding @ Home is a tool, not a miracle program. I think it's important for me to inform everyone that Folding at Home is not for cancer research, but simply to understand how proteins fold based upon their amino acid sequences. That said, this program is limited by the programming and the application of the scientists at Stanford University's Chemistry department. The program has led to approximatelly 50 scientific research articles being published on the subject of medicinal chemistry. While this may seem impressive, none of this information has led to clinical research of any significance. It is not uncommon for average High Throughput Screening Labs to be responsible for HUNDREDS of research articles in the same amount of time. Just wanted to get the word out. This program was made to predict protein folding and that is the ONLY thing it does. It does not magically cure cancer. Sometimes things are exactly as they seem.
[QUOTE="Dust24311"]I'm a scientist at Southern Research Institute in Maryland, USA. I've written on this subject before, but I deem it necessary to show people that Folding @ Home is a tool, not a miracle program. I think it's important for me to inform everyone that Folding at Home is not for cancer research, but simply to understand how proteins fold based upon their amino acid sequences. That said, this program is limited by the programming and the application of the scientists at Stanford University's Chemistry department. The program has led to approximatelly 50 scientific research articles being published on the subject of medicinal chemistry. While this may seem impressive, none of this information has led to clinical research of any significance. It is not uncommon for average High Throughput Screening Labs to be responsible for HUNDREDS of research articles in the same amount of time. Just wanted to get the word out. This program was made to predict protein folding and that is the ONLY thing it does. It does not magically cure cancer. Sometimes things are exactly as they seem. Here's how I see it. Running this program may or may not help. Not running this program DEFINITELY does not help
Indeed, it pains me to see Dust24311, a so called scientist, going from thread to thread putting this down. I advise every-one to keep up the positive attitude, the information F@H yields is usefull.
[QUOTE="animation_imp"]Indeed, it pains me to see Dust24311, a so called scientist, going from thread to thread putting this down. I advise every-one to keep up the positive attitude, the information F@H yields is usefull. Did you even read my post in the other thread? I am not discouraging people to not use the program. Simply go to Stanford's FAH website and UNDERSTAND HOW IT WORKS. Not once have I told anyone not to run this program. On the contrary, I would like them to download the program, but then take 15 minutes out of their day to read about how it works. I will get back to work now. To all that read this, please download the program, but also understand how it works.
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