explain protein folding

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• Stanford University's "folding@home" project resides at http://folding.stanford.edu

  They have versions of their program that run on Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux. The program is easy to download and use – I have it up and running on a Mac Mini and an IBM Windows box, and it only took a couple of minutes to do.

  If you care to join our team, it is identified by team=Wolfstone, team number=46090.

• World Community Grid is at http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org . It operates a number of distributed computing projects that seek to benefit humanity.

  You can find information about their protein-folding project at http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/projects_showcase/viewHpfAbout.do .

  If you would like to join Scott's team, please check out the United Grid Monkeys .