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Help scientists fight diseases, such as cancer, by donating your unused computing power by running Folding@home in a browser window.
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Our goal is to solve massive computational problems related to protein folding research. The problems require so many calculations, we ask people to donate their unused computer power to help us crunch some of the numbers. Servers at Stanford University deliver individual “work units” to thousands of computers around the world. Each of these work units is a small piece of a massive problem. When a computer finishes a work unit, it sends the results back to Stanford and gets a new work unit. Stanford’s computers then stitch together all the results to solve bigger problems.
Proteins are the elementary machines inside every cell that we rely on to keep us alive and healthy. They assemble themselves by “folding.” When proteins misfold, there can be serious health consequences. If we better understand protein misfolding we can design drugs and therapies to combat these illnesses.
Latest reviews
- (2021-05-05) Michael G: Love F@H. Also love BANANO
- (2020-11-23) Tony Brown: Shutdown in June 2019. Once installed - don't bother - you get a web page that states: "NaCl Web Client Shutdown Notice Folding@home is alive and well but our NaCl Web client has been shutdown permanently as of June, 2019. The NaCl client made it possible to run Folding@home in a Chrome Web browser. Development of this software was performed by Joseph Coffland of Cauldron Development LLC and was funded by the Hong Kong University Science & Technology. During it's 6 year lifespan, the NaCl client contributed 48 million Folding@home work units towards the study of human diseases. This represents a contribution of roughly 1.3 million CPU days. Our decision to retire the NaCl client was due to a combination of Google deprecating NaCl and infrastructure upgrades at Folding@home which would have required extra effort to continue to support the NaCl folding client. We appreciate your contribution to Folding@home. To continue folding, please install our Desktop App"
- (2020-04-08) Jonathan Langevin: Discontinued, app should be removed from the chrome store...
- (2020-04-01) BJ Jongejan: The NaCl client has shut down making this completely useless.
- (2020-03-24) Michael Wise: Extension has been discontinued due to change in Chrome technology. Do not waste time installing. Please consider upvoting this comment to push it to the top.
- (2020-03-23) Idea Hamster: No longer functional. Should be removed from the chrome web sotre. Went offline nearly a year ago.
- (2017-09-07) devid yap: For a better life.
- (2016-12-19) Dana Burns (David, your friend): I love being able to help make a difference. My Team Stats - http://folding.stanford.edu/stats/team/230679
- (2016-11-10) Adam Socki: Wow. Let's get this going for some other BOINC projects.
- (2016-05-05) Doesn't work on one of the more popular Chromebooks, the Toshiba 2. Nacl enabled and everything, you get nothing.
- (2016-01-29) Dan Vanatta: Awesome!
- (2016-01-28) Mateusz Bieniek (mat): I am happy that they made it so easy to run it. Hopefully this will encourage more people to join the project.
- (2016-01-19) Doug T: Works great, love being able to contribute while browsing the internet. And also not having to create an account and donate anonymously.
- (2015-09-15) Сергей Кузовкин: ok
- (2015-06-09) Михайло Онуфрів: Cool
- (2015-05-04) Welly Tunggala (Health and Care): Using chrome to pool.. hope working and hope can help too.
- (2015-03-18) Дмитрий Шокин: good
- (2015-03-09) Бесплатный Биткоин и Догикоин Free bitcoin Dogecoin: Good
- (2015-03-04) Very Easy, actually worked (most chrome apps fail) would prefer seti, but this is great!
- (2015-03-04) Eric Skala: Really not sure if this is working or not... keeps saying it's re-downloading software into web broswer and re-requesting work unit. I'm using Chrome OS. I have the desktop version for Windows and it works great there, I hope I could also contribute using the broswer on this Chromebook etc.
- (2015-01-13) Ng Ek Ngee: doesn't seem to support any other Chromium based browsers.
- (2014-12-15) Yi Sheng Ang: No problem here
- (2014-11-19) Awesome way to fold without a program install. Chrome rocks!
- (2014-10-31) Levi Corredor: Easy peasy simply easy to install and run. Works great, work units are smaller than running the other client.
- (2014-09-14) Vortical Box: I love folding@home, using the hardware I have to help out feels good. as this run totally in the browser means I can run in on what ever device I am using. only 4 stars because it would be nice for it to display PPD but other than that it is awesome.
- (2014-08-29) James Liedy: won't download work assignment
- (2014-07-06) André Afonso: Please add, like exist in desktop app, the option to choose the disease to contribute. Thanks!
- (2014-07-04) David Wilson: *Jawdrop* it works with Chrome!
- (2014-05-24) Charles Jonnstone: Great. Just, great.
- (2014-05-16) Marcin Miszkurka (Miszkurka2000): When on Android?
- (2014-04-09) Anand Bhat: Help science AND watch cat videos in one place. It doesn't get easier that this!
- (2014-03-06) Oliver Drummond: Really easy to use!
- (2014-03-01) Vemund Holstad: This is awesome! Start foldng and help us find a cure;)
- (2014-02-26) Peter Kastner: Piece of cake.
- (2014-02-25) Carlos Xavier Hernández: Easiest way to start folding!
- (2014-02-25) Robert: So easy. So awesome!
- (2014-02-24) Owain Bates: So easy to use! Thanks! I really hope many more people begin to participate in this project - it's really worthwhile and requires hardly any effort at all!
- (2014-02-20) Tim Braun: Easiest Folding@home client to install and run, ever! Launch App, put in a user name, team, and passkey, hit save, and it's folding. No downloads, no installer, no configuration, it just RUNS! and this new client updates itself. It's my new homepage...
- (2014-02-20) Joseph Coffland: Awesome!