Extremadura@home

The 5th festival of new technologies  has been celebrated in Los Santos de Maimona, Extremadura, Spain from the 22th to 25th of October of 2009. The 24th the project Extremadurathome will be presented to the attendees..

All the information is available at  www.festivalntx.net  

The Extremadurathome project has been presented in the  I Congreso Iberoamericano del conocimiento libre, in Panamá.

The project presented its goals  and how it is possible to participate with science through Extremadurathome.

The project gathered several volunteers from Panamá, as well as spreading the technology of the project: Jarifa and BOINC.

It has been published the video of the talk that we gave at the  DebConf9 conferences. The video can be viewed or downloaded on high or low resolution.

The goal of  Rosetta@home project is to solve one of the most challenging scientific problems: the protein folding.

In the words of the Doctor and leader of the project David Barker: "Proteins are the miniature machines that carry out almost all the important functions in your body". Therefore, it is really important to know how the proteins work, and thus to know also their structure. The structure of proteins is defined based on a sequence of amino acid sequences, but it is very difficult to know the structure of a protein via its amino acid squence.

The project tries to solve this problem using the computers of thousands of volunteers around the world. All the improvements obtained by this project will help to design new vaccines and/or therapies for diseases, thanks to the better knowledge of proteins.