There are a number of distributed computing projects like this one, with the goal of predicting protein structures given an amino acid sequence. In fact, there is a very large effort that is using our software, Rosetta, as the core application (the Human Proteome Folding Project). All of the projects will benefit our understanding of protein folding and application to biology and medicine. Our project is similar to Predictor@home, in that we are trying to improve our methods by conducting research that is only possible with the computing power that a grid computing project can provide.

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