You Can Make A Difference
Rosetta@home
needs your help to determine the 3-dimensional shapes of proteins in research
that may ultimately lead to finding cures for some major human diseases. By
running the Rosetta program on your computer while you don't need it you will
help us speed up and extend research in ways that couldn't possibly be attempted
without your help. You will also be helping efforts at designing new proteins
to fight diseases such as HIV, Malaria, Cancer, and Alzheimer's
By combining thousands of ordinary PCs to work on extremely large computational projects, problems can be solved more quickly and less expensively than by conventional methods. Now regular people can help fuel research and projects that previously may have required a bank of supercomputers or a hundred years to complete. The Rosetta@home program lets you make a real difference without donating money or your time with the tool that you are using to view this site right now on your home PC.
In the Rosetta@home program, your computer can join tens of thousands of
other PCs across the Internet each working on a small part of a large problem
simultaneously. You can help one or more public good projects. To participate,
simply download a very small, non-invasive software program that works like a
screensaver: it runs when your computer isn't being used, and processes
projects until you need the power. Your computer never leaves your desk, and
the project never interrupts your usual PC use.