Simulation of millisecond protein folding: NTL9 (from Folding@home)

Simulating protein folding on the millisecond timescale has been a major challenge for many years. In a recent paper (http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/ja9090353), Folding@home researchers Vincent Voelz, Greg Bowman, Kyle Beauchamp, and Vijay Pande have broken this barrier. This is a movie of one of the trajectories that folded (i.e. started unfolded and ended up in the folded state). From simulations like these, we have found some new surprises in how proteins fold. Please see the paper (url above) for more details.

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Science & Technology

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• Folding@home
• protein folding
• Vijay Pande

[NameNotAlreadyTaken2]

Congratulations

[eliot1785]

Haha I love the choice of music!

[xfluffyHEADSHOTx]

hi john

[datswhatsupable]

hi john

[JesseVictors]

@mphello actually Stanford is unique because they have massive amounts of computing power backing their simulations. Specifically, 6.4 petaFLOPS, which makes them the 2nd most powerful computing system in the world. That's not something everyone can claim. They are breaking records and basically writing the book on large-scale simulations. 95 scientific papers too. See the Wikipedia article on Folding@home

[mphello]

That protein molecule's definitely gettin' jiggy with it!

BTW: F Stanford University. Hundreds of universities and colleges across the globe have been doing the same thing that Stanford has since Stanford has, but rarely get credited. There's nothing special or unique about Stanford.

This is the kind of research I'd really like to get into.

[fastsandslash]

Interesting...

[pearlambrosia]

so dramatic