If you want to take part in helping scientists find a
<https://9to5mac.com/guides/coronavirus/> coronavirus cure, you can now
donate some of your unused Mac processing power to work on cracking
COVID-19.
You might already be familiar with <https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/>
SETI@Home. This uses spare processing power from personal computers all
around the world to analyze data from radio telescopes, looking for signs of
extraterrestrial intelligence. That program is ceasing at the end of the
month, as the university now has enough results to do a back-end analysis to
make sense of it all.
But there's a similar distributed computing project geared to finding cures
for diseases, Folding@Home (FAH), and that has started work on trying to
find a cure for the coronavirus.
So far, FAH has been working on four different cancers, three neurological
diseases, and five infectious diseases.
Cancer: Breast cancer, p53, Epigenetics, kidney cancer
Neurological diseases: Alzheimer's, Huntington's, Parkinson's
Infectious diseases: Dengue fever, Chagas disease (African Trypanosomiasis),
Zika virus, Hepatitis C, Ebola virus
COVID-19 has
<https://foldingathome.org/2020/02/27/foldinghome-takes-up-the-fight-against
-covid-19-2019-ncov/> now been added to the list.
We need your help! Folding@home is joining researchers around the world
working to better understand the 2019 Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) to accelerate
the open science effort to develop new life-saving therapies. By downloading
<https://foldingathome.org/> Folding@Home, you can donate your unused
computational resources to the
<https://foldingathome.org/about/the-foldinghome-consortium/> Folding@home
Consortium, where researchers working to advance our understanding of the
structures of potential drug targets for 2019-nCoV that could aid in the
design of new therapies. The data you help us generate will be quickly and
openly disseminated as part of an open science collaboration of multiple
laboratories around the world, giving researchers new tools that may unlock
new opportunities for developing lifesaving drugs.
To run the <https://foldingathome.org/support/faq/installation-guides/mac/>
Folding@Home Mac app, V7, you'll any 64-bit Mac (Core 2 Duo or later)
running macOS 10.6 or later.
Folding@home is a project focused on disease research. The problems we're
solving require so many computer calculations - and we need your help to
find the cures!
The Folding@home software allows you to share your unused computer power
with us - so that we can research even more potential cures.
Folding refers to the way human protein folds in the cells that make up your
body. We rely on the proteins to keep us healthy and they assemble
themselves by folding. But when they misfold, there can be serious
consequences to a person's health.
The journey started in the year 2000, at Stanford University. The Pande Lab,
directed by professor Vijay Pande, founded the Folding@home project. Ever
since, the team has been researching protein folding, computational drug
design and other types of molecular dynamics.
<https://foldingathome.org/start-folding/> You can download the app here.
The control and viewer apps both look like they were created by a Windows
programmer in about 1990, but they do the job.
Once installed, you can use the FAHControl app to choose whether the app
works all the time, or only when your Mac is idle - and you can choose how
much of your Mac CPU power it uses. It defaults to the lowest priority, and
light usage. You can also pause it at any time, for example, while running
an app that needs all the power it can get.
I've created a 9to5Mac team, so if you want to join in, enter team number
235955 when prompted.
By <https://9to5mac.com/author/benlovejoy/> Ben Lovejoy at:
www.9to5mac.com
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