{"id":28342,"date":"2020-03-09T15:45:59","date_gmt":"2020-03-09T19:45:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=28342"},"modified":"2020-03-27T16:16:52","modified_gmt":"2020-03-27T20:16:52","slug":"foldinghome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/09\/foldinghome\/","title":{"rendered":"Folding@home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tidbits.com\/2020\/03\/06\/your-mac-can-no-longer-listen-for-aliens-but-it-could-help-cure-covid-19\/\">Josh Centers<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/tidbits.com\/2020\/03\/06\/your-mac-can-no-longer-listen-for-aliens-but-it-could-help-cure-covid-19\/\"><p>If you&rsquo;re looking for a new distributed computing project to join (calling Bob Lauterbach), the 20-year-old <a href=\"https:\/\/foldingathome.org\">Folding@home<\/a> project is still going strong. Folding@home is dedicated to &ldquo;understanding protein folding, the diseases that result from protein misfolding and aggregation, and novel computational ways to develop new drugs in general.&rdquo;<\/p><p>In addition to cancer, Alzheimer&rsquo;s, Huntington&rsquo;s, and Parkinson&rsquo;s, Folding@home is tackling a disease that has been dominating the headlines: <a href=\"https:\/\/foldingathome.org\/2020\/02\/27\/foldinghome-takes-up-the-fight-against-covid-19-2019-ncov\/\">COVID-19<\/a>. Your contributions could help researchers find a treatment.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/03\/setihome-shuts-down\/\">SETI@home Shuts Down<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p id=\"foldinghome-update-2020-03-27\">Update (2020-03-27): <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/monkeydom\/status\/1238210931928240130\">Dominik Wagner<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/monkeydom\/status\/1238210931928240130\">\n<p>Fun Fact: I&rsquo;m actually running windows on an iMac to be able to contribute to the #COVID19 \n@foldingathome\n projects, as they are all GPU only right now and no GPU support on macOS currently.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Josh Centers: If you&rsquo;re looking for a new distributed computing project to join (calling Bob Lauterbach), the 20-year-old Folding@home project is still going strong. Folding@home is dedicated to &ldquo;understanding protein folding, the diseases that result from protein misfolding and aggregation, and novel computational ways to develop new drugs in general.&rdquo;In addition to cancer, Alzheimer&rsquo;s, Huntington&rsquo;s, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2020-03-09T19:46:02Z","apple_news_api_id":"14cbc318-84e0-4465-8c2e-e3a8391f7974","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2020-03-27T20:16:56Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAQ==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AFMvDGITgRGWMLuOoOR95dA","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1931,30,32,1666,460],"class_list":["post-28342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-covid-19","tag-mac","tag-macapp","tag-macos-10-15","tag-science"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28342"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28491,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28342\/revisions\/28491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}