Our group has been using a grid computing project from folding@home. We have been working with other groups on folding@home to find new mutations and protein misfoldings to be able to better predict misfoldings and mutations that are related to cancer. There has been a lot of progress through out the years for folding@home's work with cancer. In 2007 plans were started using folding@home as a new approach to fight cancer by developing novel chaperonin inhibitors which would inhibit certain protein foldings. Below are some certificates that are for our groups work with folding@home. These certificates show our work units and how many points we have accumulated thus far. How work units work is you complete certain work units for projects that folding at home is running. Depending on how many work units you complete and how many resources the projects take is what determines how many points you receive. Our CPU is working 100/500 work units up to this point.
This project was very rewarding for all of us. We feel like we have contributed a lot to folding@home's projects. We have decided to continue folding even after this service project is done. In the future we hope to see some really progressive results on finding a cure for cancer and we hope that folding@home can help us do just that.
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