Rosetta@home

http://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta Explains the science behind top research on protein folding at the University of Washington's Baker Lab. 3D animations and interviews

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Film & Animation

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• biochemistry
• protein
• folding
• boinc
• distributed
• computing
• rosetta@home

[Ujikaweapon1]

Amazing! I love this technology. Exceptional video.

[fledermaus81]

If anyone has doubts about whether crunching for Rosetta is meaningful, they should look no further than David Baker's Rosetta@home journal (at the Rosetta@home website) - it has some pretty amazing stuff about what the crunched results have meant for their research thus far. Go check it out.

[kyheadup]

I'm very proud of donating my free CPU time to help this project.

[wellwellwellall]

oh intuition and the rosetta. Sacred geometry......:) good luck

[CreatormasterF1]

Why only 240p?

[mclaren777]

Great video and a great piece of software. I graduated from UW with a degree in biochemistry and I wanted to thank your team for doing such excellent research.

[IloveYOUviruses]

at least this isn't as stupid as SETI

[CarlKenner]

@bestSVMS, it's to test whether they are computing it correctly. It's quite hard to compute, and they keep improving their algorithm. Not all of the tasks it computes are tests against known shapes, some are actually predicting completely unknown shapes.

[rm3cpp]

I loved the mention of the educational possibilities of the project towards the end of the video. Although it's certainly an even more blurry goal than that of accurately predicting protein structures, it is an equally beautiful one. It is wonderful to see researchers thinking about things like that - because that is what we ultimately need, a world of creative people striving to understand the universe.

[bestSVMS]

why are they trying to compute the shape of its already known?

and how is this different from f@h?

[BigBananaMan]

Well how does understanding quantum mechanics solve our energy problems?

[MiniZiper]

That's the screen saver. If you go to boinc manager, then to tasks, and select the running tasks, and option to the left will appear that says: "show graphics". Voila.