Folding at home is a distributed computing resource setup to use the spare CPU cycles on a computer to analyse data that will help towards finding out why proteins some times fold the way they do and cause diseases such as BSE, Alzheimer, Parkinson’s etc..
You can download a client for your computer which works in the background with no impact to what your doing.
Visit Stanford University website at http://folding.stanford.edu – why not join our team? Just use team id 174424 and support the CraZy PeNguIn 
