Folding@home
Folding@home is a distributed computing project that focuses on understanding protein folding and misfolding, which are crucial processes in biology. By using the idle processing power of volunteers' computers, it simulates the complex movements of proteins, helping researchers study diseases like Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and cancer.
Participants can download the Folding@home software, which runs in the background and contributes to the project without disrupting their daily activities. The collective effort of thousands of volunteers accelerates scientific research, making it possible to tackle problems that would be difficult for individual researchers to solve alone.