{"id":199,"date":"2007-10-04T08:53:48","date_gmt":"2007-10-04T15:53:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ryanorser.com\/?p=199"},"modified":"2007-10-04T08:53:48","modified_gmt":"2007-10-04T15:53:48","slug":"foldinghome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/2007\/10\/04\/foldinghome\/","title":{"rendered":"Folding@Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In case you haven&#8217;t heard about it, here&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/folding.stanford.edu\/\">folding@Home<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a nutshell, it&#8217;s a distributed computing project designed to simulate problems associated with protein folding.<\/p>\n<p>Protein folding is basically the stage wherein proteins assemble themselves, before carrying out important functions.Now when a misfold happens, serious consequences may occur &#8211; Alzheimer&#8217;s, Mad Cow (BSE), CJD, ALS, Huntington&#8217;s, Parkinson&#8217;s disease, and many Cancers and cancer-related syndromes.<\/p>\n<p>Certain individuals hope to better understand these problems through the help of virtual simulation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In case you haven&#8217;t heard about it, here&#8217;s folding@Home In a nutshell, it&#8217;s a distributed computing project designed to simulate problems associated with protein folding. Protein folding is basically the stage wherein proteins assemble themselves, before carrying out important functions.Now when a misfold happens, serious consequences may occur &#8211; Alzheimer&#8217;s, Mad Cow (BSE), CJD, ALS, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}