Folding@home And Curing Disease

[Vmedvil2]

"It takes about a year and costs about $120,000 to obtain the structure of a single protein through X-ray crystallography, according to an estimate from the University of Toronto. More recently, two other experimental methods—nuclear magnetic resonance and cryogenic electron microscopy—have also been used."

So, I have donated $82,800,000 worth of protein folding at this point for Cancer Research.

Edited January 28, 2022 by Vmedvil2

[Vmedvil2]

but there are people that have donated like 266 billion dollars to medical research via protein folding as of 1/27/2022

[Vmedvil2]

1/28/2022, Proteins Folded for cancer research.

Edited January 28, 2022 by Vmedvil2

[Vmedvil2]

1/29/2022, Proteins Folded for Cancer Research.

Edited January 29, 2022 by Vmedvil2

[Rasti]

I have been folding for years with no regrets!

I have three family members who have diseases I can help cure by continuing to run the software. 😄

 

[Vmedvil]

2 minutes ago, Rasti said:

I have been folding for years with no regrets!

I have three family members who have diseases I can help cure by continuing to run the software. 😄

 

That's excellent, I always salute fellow protein folders!

Edited April 30, 2023 by Vmedvil

[Vmedvil]

The A.R.I. Cancer moonshot started 5/20/2024 and has been continuously running at 70% power since that date still working toward a cancer cure. The moonshot will continue until the graphics card on this computer stops functioning at this power level which will be replaced after it suffers catastrophic failure.

 

The Current Amount as of 6/8/2024.

 

Current Protein that is being folded as of right now.

 

Edited June 12 by Vmedvil

[Vmedvil]

This computer's video card is a tough old goat as of 8/3/2024 it is still going strong and the current number of proteins folded is below as a part of the cancer moonshot.

 

 

If 1200 have been folded that means this computer has processed in the last 73 days 69.3 Exaflops of data at 11 teraflops a second donating 144 Million dollars of protein folding to cancer research.

Edited August 4 by Vmedvil

[Vmedvil]

As of 11/5/2024, A.R.I. is at 1700 proteins folded as part of the cancer moonshot to fold many of the proteins that are the root cause of different types of cancer.

 

The reason why the progress has slowed down is because I had an idea what if you also mined bitcoin while the computer folds proteins as a source money to pay for the computer's electricity which takes some of the processing power away from protein folding however generates enough money to pay for the power usage of the protein folding and bitcoin mining. 

Imagine a world where protein folding computers paid for their own electricity while curing cancer with bitcoin. I don't think this computer quite pays for its own electricity however it is a new experiment with this I am trying.