Did anyone ever thought about a PC 'playing' the game?
| Case number: | 699969-993430 |
| Topic: | General |
| Opened by: | Hook-Up |
| Status: | Open |
| Type: | Suggestion |
| Opened on: | Friday, August 31, 2012 - 18:09 |
| Last modified: | Saturday, September 1, 2012 - 17:33 |
Well,... My question is,...
Would it be possible?
Can a PC play through all possibilities and save all stable proteins in a DB?
Wouldn't it be possible to create an algorithm, which tests all possibilities on it's own?!
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...
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.