What is folding?

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What is folding?

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As the title states, what the heck is folding?
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Basically
Folding@Home is a distributed computing project similar to Seti@Home

check out
Folding Homepage http://foldingathome.stanford.edu
Folding FAQ http://www.stanford.edu/group/pandegroup/Cosm/faq.html
Folding Project Goals: solving the protein folding problem http://www.stanford.edu/group/pandegrou ... html#goals

this should answer most your questions...
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