Rosetta@home against COVID

Apr 8, 2020

Rosetta@home is a distributed computing project that uses some of your CPU time to compute protein structures.

By running Rosetta@home on your computer when you're not using it you will speed up and extend our efforts to design new proteins and to predict their 3-dimensional shapes. Proteins are the molecular machines and building blocks of life. You can read more about protein folding and design here.

I've been running Rosetta@home and other BOINC projects on my computers for the past 10 and more years, even dedicating spare Macs I had at home to the cause.
I had missed it, but in late february Rosetta@home announced some of its computational resources were used to compute an important Coronavirus protein weeks before it was possible to measure it in the lab.
Currently, many R@h tasks involve the modelling of proteins that could be used to find a vaccine, the only known cure to COVID-19.

Rosetta@home leverages BOINC to run: if you want to donate some spare CPU cycles to science, start here to download BOINC and join the project. Through BOINC you may also join other projects and configure how much RAM, storage and CPU time these calculations may use. Among the other project you may join, I also like and run World Community Grid.

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