.........If a computer is folding, what is it doing. Maybe it's me, I'm a bit thick on teccy stuff...........

Protein folding, if I'm not mistaken - basically your PC has a program on it that runs when it's sat idle that tries various combinations of amino acids to see if they have beneficial properties. It's a distributed processing thing so the organisations that run the folding get something resembling the processing power of a supercomputer, but without the massive cost...

Protein folding - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The shape of a protein determines what is does and that shape is made by the way it folds.

Computers can calculate how a molecule folds and then work out if that can be a target for drugs or maybe further research.

Still puzzles me ! :(

Still puzzles me ! :(

I fold

Duh?

Wassat?

Still dont see why and wherefore...lol

I fold, and have been for more than 3 years.

The briskoda team is in 132 place in the world of thousands of teams, and we are ahead of some big name companies.

I am currently 903 of 655000 other folders.

I am currently 903 of 655000 other folders.

Ah, so you're in a subfolder

I think, therefore I fold!!!!!

And I've been climbing my up list for months.

I up about 100 places since I started my quest, just in the top 30 brisk folders