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Join SARP's Anti-Coronavirus Folding Team!

Hi Star Army,

We're in the middle of a global crisis right now that is not going to go away until a vaccine is developed for SARS-COV1 (Coronavirus). The virus can re-infect and will just keep bouncing around the world killing people and flaring up whenever we can't stand being in isolation anymore. With this in mind, tonight Star Army has set up Folding@Home team to assist with research on the virus by donating our PC's spare computing power to scientific research. Our team number is 245218. Please join me in this effort if you can.

What is Folding@Home?

Folding@home (FAH or F@h) is a distributed computing project for simulating protein dynamics, including the process of protein folding and the movements of proteins implicated in a variety of diseases. It brings together citizen scientists who volunteer to run simulations of protein dynamics on their personal computers. Insights from this data are helping scientists to better understand biology, and providing new opportunities for developing therapeutics.

Where do I download this?

Get it at https://foldingathome.org/start-folding/

How Do I Join Star Army's Team?


See: https://foldingathome.org/support/faq/stats-teams-usernames/

Make a username and user our team number what you configure your FAH client, which is 245218
 
@Wes I just checked the status and got a good amount of credits for CPU usage, but it cant find the page of the team, is the number correct?
 
On the forum I saw that so many people have joined that the stats pages may be struggling to keep up. I will look into that today.
 
Well, the number is right and the team exists - you can see it by putting the number in here: https://apps.foldingathome.org/team - but annoyingly we don't show up on https://stats.foldingathome.org/teams yet. We're supposed to have a team page eventually at https://stats.foldingathome.org/team/245218 (I see I got nothing at my user stats page here either https://stats.foldingathome.org/donor/StarArmy ) - According to the forum you won't appear sometime until after your first work unit is completed.
 
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Some additional useful FAQs I found:


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Stats are still fuxxored due the huge number of new people (like us!) joining the Folding@Home community to assist COVID/Corona research.
 
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Finally, a work unit! And it's a Coronavirus one, too!
 
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The stats page finally worked!

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The stats server is still borked but on the local web control panel you can see our team points are up to 651,326! Let's keep working towards a million!
 
From u/Tuareg99 via Reddit:

Why are we folding and running simulations of proteins - explained

https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=25CoBK2ePww&t=232s

The part of the video below shows how the virus is made of and how it interacts with human cells.

In a nutshell, he is capable of getting a host cell because of the "spike" proteins it has. If we can study this proteins and how they interact, we can find a way to stop viruses getting hosts, stopping the infection - a cure.

See the video for more detail, it is very interesting and might motivate people to start or continue do folding and why it is so important.

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Team Star Army has over a million points now!

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We passed 5000 work units! Thanks everyone who is helping this research!
 
We're almost to 7,000 work units! Wow!

I was thinking that once the Coronavirus pandemic kind of dies out maybe we might want to continue folding in general to help with cancer research and other diseases.
 
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