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The Folding@home team released its software to the public in September 2000. The project aims to simulate protein dynamics, including the process of protein folding and the movements of proteins implicated in a variety of diseases such as Cancer, Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, Huntington’s, Influenza, and many others.

World Community Grid enables anyone with a computer, smartphone, or tablet to donate their unused computing power to advance cutting-edge scientific research on topics related to health, poverty, and sustainability.

The Berkley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC) is an open source software platform for computing that uses volunteered resources. The BOINC platform was developed at the University of Berkeley and started in 2002. BOINC makes it possible to use the unused computing power of many thousands of computers available over the Internet or any Intranet.

"You don’t have to be a scientist to do science" - is the slogan of the Rosetta@home project. The idea is quite simple – you can donate free computing capacity in times when you don’t need it to determine the 3-dimensional shapes of proteins.