Paper #72: Major new result from Folding@home: simulation of the millisecond timesc

[GlitchPC]

Simulating protein folding on the millisecond timescale has been a major challenge for many years. When we started Folding@home, our first goal was to break the microsecond barrier. This barrier is 1000x fold harder and represents a major step forward...

More... (http://folding.typepad.com/news/2010/01/major-new-result-from-foldinghome-simulation-of-the-millisecond-timescale.html)

[jjFarking]

That's awesome stuff..
Whilst I don't fully understand the whole deal, I do understand the basics and it's just .. well, awesome :D

Thanks Steve :cool:

[GlitchPC]

Don't feel like the Lone Stranger...to me...it's a Ball of Confusion.

[jjFarking]

Basically, as I understand it anyways, is that instead of needing to wait for whatever period of time (possibly even years?), this folding can be faithfully re-created on a millisecond timescale, with 100% accuracy (as far as is known, anyway). This means that any problems (misfolding) that occur along the way, can accurately be traced back to a particular point in time where the misfolding occured, with, hopefully, the cause behind it.
For instance, the video shows the C-terminus not connected in the folding process, until much further along. It does so eventually, but if it didn't they'd be able to see (or show) why it may not have.

I think :p