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I've taken the liberty of setting up an official folding@home team for Soylent News. In case you aren't familiar with folding@home, it's a distributed computing project that simulates protein folding in an attempt to better understand diseases such as Alzheimer's and Huntington's.
There is more information on the project here, which explains it much better than I could.
Clients are available for Linux, OSX, and even Windows (if you swing that way), so come join our botnet!
That Other Site's team is ranked at 1817, so we've got some catching up to do.
On a personal note, my Dad carries the gene markers for Huntington's disease, and will eventually succumb to it. Research like this is very helpful for understanding, and hopefully developing treatments for it.
tl;dr Our Soylent News team ID is 230319
(Score: 5, Insightful) by opinionated_science on Friday February 12 2016, @05:40PM
Scientific software should be FOSS or at the least testable - otherwise the results can be faked.
Disclosure: Author of related scientific software.
If I run the code on MY machine and give you results (behind a website, say), then you have to trust me, but that's what experimental evidence is for.
But if I'm running on *your* machine for *my* benefit, I kind of think you'd want to see the source...
Controlling source code quality with github is easy - don't accept pulls from non-devs without review!!!
(Score: 2) by krishnoid on Friday February 12 2016, @10:00PM
Scientific software should be FOSS or at the least testable - otherwise the results can be faked.
Can't you test/perform protein folding in the lab and verify that it matches the simulated results?