See "about" to understand why manual folding is useful or http://fold.it/portal/info/science

and if you want only to let your computer fold proteins see rosetta:
http://boinc.bakerlab.org/
and see how not one but many PC can help folding proteins.

Thank you very much!

Another question (not thread-title related):

I want to modify already available proteins.
First off, I'm searching for a model of the "SI-Virus" (a.k.a. Ape/Monkey-HIV).

I'm also searching for more info how these (proteins, viruses and especially the SI-Virus) can mutate.
Is it more kind of a chemical reaction on a molecular level?

What info about the differences between SIV and HIV are known?

Is there already a HIV-Protein-Structure known?
What are the biggest issues/roadblocks for healing HIV?

Is it, because of the protein-structure isn't known, or is it (the structure) dynamically changing?

I want to help to find a way to cure HIV!
I found out about "fold.it" in a PC-Magazine, where they mentioned that the SI-Virus/Protein has been mapped due to this project.

I might have some friends, which would invest some time into playing this game.

Sorry for all those gramatical errors, but I'm out of the loop for a while and didn't wrote in another language than mine, for a while...