{"id":8638,"date":"2005-10-26T18:21:20","date_gmt":"2005-10-26T18:21:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streettech.dreamhosters.com\/?p=8638"},"modified":"2005-10-26T18:21:20","modified_gmt":"2005-10-26T18:21:20","slug":"street-tech-now-with-folded-proteins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=8638","title":{"rendered":"Street Tech: Now With Folded Proteins!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"250\" align=\"right\" valign=\"top\" src=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/storypics\/protein.jpg\">Street Tech has joined the Stanford <a href=\"http:\/\/folding.stanford.edu\/\" target=\"new\">Folding@Home<\/a> project. This is a distributed computing project (a la Seti@Home) where your unused computer processing cycles are put to work helping to simulate protein folding. <\/p>\n<p> As proteins are assembled (or &#8220;folded&#8221;), misfolding can lead to all sorts of diseases. By running computer models which simulate gazillions of folds, researchers can study, and hopefully come to a better understanding of, how proteins fold (and misfold). This could lead to prevention and treatment of fold-related diseases (such as Alzheimer&#8217;s, Mad Cow ALS, Huntington&#8217;s, and Parkinson&#8217;s).<\/p>\n<p> So, to help out in the effort, we&#8217;ve created Team StreetTech. To join, all you have to do is download one of the <a href=\"http:\/\/folding.stanford.edu\/download.html\" target=\"new\">Folding@Home programs<\/a> (for Mac, Win, Linux) and enter the Team StreetTech number in the set-up (Team #47060). You can run F@H as a screensaver (Mac) or as a stand-alone client or text console. <\/p>\n<p> C&#8217;mon, Street Techies: Show your TechTeam spirit and do something useful with all those wasted CPU cycles you spent so much money on.<\/p>\n<p> [This picture shows the first Team StreetTech folding sim. Here I&#8217;m helping out on protein number p1155_L939_K12. Is it just me, or does that sickly greenish molecule look like trouble?]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Street Tech has joined the Stanford Folding@Home project. This is a distributed computing project (a la Seti@Home) where your unused computer processing cycles are put to work helping to simulate protein folding. As proteins are assembled (or &#8220;folded&#8221;), misfolding can lead to all sorts of diseases. By running computer models which simulate gazillions of folds, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=8638\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Street Tech: Now With Folded Proteins!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scitech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8638\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}