.. title: Folding@Home for COVID-19
.. slug: started-folding
.. date: 2020-03-28 19:19:10 UTC-07:00
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I setup `Folding@Home`_ and started contributing computing resources to `Covid-19`_ project.

For Covid-19, the `Folding@Home`_ project is trying to find out the structure of covid-19 virus as it comes in contact
with human bodies through `ACE2 receptor`_, and how an understanding of this can help build therapeutic antibiotics
or molecules that might disrupt the viral interaction.

.. image:: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/h4n6u8p9uut8xzd/IMG_20200328_191444.jpg


Stats: https://stats.foldingathome.org/donor/Senthil.Kumaran

.. image:: https://dl.dropbox.com/s/uab0psll81ufw2z/folding-at-home.png
   :target: https://stats.foldingathome.org/donor/Senthil.Kumaran

`Folding@Home`_ hit a milestone `Exaflop`_ computing speed, which is a billion billion floating point operations per
second.

**Let's not leave any stone unturned.**

Resources
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*  Installation instructions for `Ubuntu 19.10`_
* `Coronavirus pushes Folding@Home’s crowdsourced molecular science to exaflop levels`_


.. _Folding@Home: https://foldingathome.org/

.. _Covid-19: https://foldingathome.org/covid19/
.. _Ubuntu 19.10: https://foldingforum.org/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=31972#

.. _Coronavirus pushes Folding@Home’s crowdsourced molecular science to exaflop levels: https://techcrunch.com/2020/03/26/coronavirus-pushes-foldinghomes-crowdsourced-molecular-science-to-exaflop-levels/

.. _ACE2 receptor: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angiotensin-converting_enzyme_2

.. _Exaflop: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exascale_computing