``Our group has developed a new way to simulate protein folding (`distributed dynamics') which should remove the previous barriers to simulating protein folding. However, this method is extremely computationally demanding and we need your help....We have already demonstrated that our distributed dynamics technique can fold small protein fragments and protein-like synthetic polymers. The next step is to apply these methods to larger, considerably more important and complicated proteins. Unfortunately, larger proteins fold slower and thus we need more computers to simulate their folding. While the alpha helix folds in 100 nanoseconds, proteins just a little larger fold 100x slower (10 microseconds). Thus, while 10-100 processors were enough to simulate the helix, we will need many more to simulate these larger, more interesting proteins.''

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http://www.stanford.edu/group/pandegroup/Cosm/

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