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Soylent News has a Top 1000 Folding@Home Team!

posted by cmn32480 on Wednesday April 27 2016, @07:07AM   
from the yay-us! dept.

Sir Finkus writes:

I'm thrilled to report that the Soylent News Folding@Home team is now ranked among the top 1000 folding teams in the world! As of this submission, we are currently at rank 996. The team has been active for just over two months and has made impressive progress. Thank you to all who have participated.

Current team member rankings follow:

1. cmn32480
2. Beldin65
3. LTKKane
4. tibman
5. Kymation
6. meisterister
7. Runaway1956
8. kurenai.tsubasa
9. SirFinkus
10. NotSanguine

If you'd like additional information, or would like to join our team, there is more information available here, or feel free to join us in #folding on chat.soylentnews.org

Please note that the numbers across the different reporting sites are not exactly consistent. Team members may appear in different orders based on where and when the stats are viewed.

Thanks
-SirFinkus

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Original Submission

• What is this folding@home thing?What is this folding@home thing? (Score: 5, Informative) by FakeBeldin on Wednesday April 27 2016, @12:08PM

  by FakeBeldin (3360) on Wednesday April 27 2016, @12:08PM (#337885) Journal

  Summary kind of misses out on explaining what folding@home is.
  (yes I've heard of it and am somewhat aware of it, but a hint or two in the summary would've been nice.)
  Modest attempt at answering that myself below.

  From the folding@home page [stanford.edu], it's about computing folding proteins.
  From wikipedia: Proteins are long molecules that can fold in many ways [wikipedia.org]. Curiously enough, the manner of folding determines a large number of effects - a protein folded one way is useful for many things, folded differently it isn't. Since each protein is a long chain, and since it's being folded in three dimensions, there are many, many, many ways for it to fold. And it's not readily apparent what constitutes a "different" folding.

  Come in the folding@home project. People from all over the world contribute their computer's idle time to help generate data about folding proteins. Which will be used by Stanford.

  <sidenote>
  - The goal and contribution is not at all clearly explained on the Stanford page. If someone has more clue, additions and corrections welcome!
  - It is not clear to me at all to whom the generated data will be made available. From http://folding.stanford.edu/home/papers [stanford.edu], it reads as if all this data is donated to one group of researchers.
  </sidenote>

  Starting Score:	1		point
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  Informative=3, Total=3
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  Karma-Bonus Modifier		+1
  Total Score:		5

• Re:What is this folding@home thing?(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 27 2016, @12:49PM

  by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 27 2016, @12:49PM (#337907)

  And here's where we discussed this earlier https://soylentnews.org/meta/article.pl?sid=16/02/12/048207 [soylentnews.org]

  Parent