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Has any scientific breakthrough come out of the Folding@Home project? (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 months ago by BeatTakeshi@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I probably donated 10 years of idle CPU time between 2005 to 2015.

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[–] hinterlufer@lemmy.world 15 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The thing is that many of these things just can't be measured directly. You can use the information from the simulation to get a deeper understanding of e.g. some receptors (as was done), and use that information for something else. For example to optimize a binder for the receptor, or to manipulate the tonic signalling. But that's then often a paper building onto the findings from the simulation.

[–] Lemming6969@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

Yeah so that's the question, was any drug or other technique successfully optimized