Curious

Gobbles

Whats the difference between Folding@home and Rosetta@home?



http://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/

other boinc projects

*Climateprediction.net: Studies climate change.

*Einstein@home: Searches for gravitational signals emitted by pulsars.

*Predictor@home: Investigates protein-related diseases.

*SETI@home: Looks for evidence of extraterrestrial life detected by radio telescopes.

*Rosetta@home: Helps researchers develop cures for human diseases.

QCH

Don't know.... no FAQ's that compare the two either...

Straight_Man

Rosetta is a project of one Lab, Baker Lab. Folding gets ideas and and sometimes sponsored projects from many institutions and laboratories, as well as its own staff of biochem folks. BOTH fold protiens. I culled this from the articles about Rosetta and knowledge of Folding.

Qeldroma

There are also private endeavours (genome I think is one) that have similar projects. They basically are in it for the $. Folding is Stanford U. research and it's research is ostensibly not for private gain.

Usually a private endeavour will have specific goals like a drug or food supplement. Stanford's research seems to address "the big picture", "the building blocks" or "the broad spectrum".

I don't know too much about these other ventures because they are basically self-interested- but they may well pull in some Stanford research to accomplish their task. And that may be important some day ....