What if your computer could help save the world?
Join our global community of citizen scientists and help make the biomedical and biotechnological advances that will help save the world.
Computer simulations to understand and control biology
Our volunteers run computer simulations of proteins on their personal computer(s) to help understand how these molecular machines contribute to diseases ranging from cancer to Alzheimer’s and inform the development of new medicines.
Protein folding
Our community originally focused on understanding protein folding, which is the process of how proteins assemble themselves info functional machines.
Protein dynamics
We’re increasingly focused on understanding the moving part of proteins that allow them to do everything from exerting force (e.g. in muscle contraction) to sensing infections.
Drug discovery
We are actively designing new drugs based on our insights into protein folding and dynamics.
Ebola
We’re finding unexpected moving parts in Ebola and other viruses, and exploiting this insight to design new antivirals.
Cancer
We’re finding differences between protein dynamics that explain drug resistance and point to counter measures.
Alzheimer’s disease
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“Together, our community is enabling scientific research that wouldn’t otherwise be possible for decades..”
Greg Bowman
Director, Folding@gbowman