Folding@home [SEP] creator
implications for medical research into Alzheimer's disease, Huntington's disease, and many forms of cancer, among other diseases. To a lesser extent, Folding@home also tries to predict a protein's final structure and determine how other molecules may interact with it, which has applications in drug design. Folding@home is developed and operated by the Pande Laboratory at Stanford University, under the direction of Prof. Vijay Pande, and is shared by various scientific institutions and research laboratories across the world.
The project has pioneered the use of graphics processing
, creator of the Folding@home distributed computing disease research project, helped design and code the game.
Reception.
The game has received mixed reviews. MegaTech magazine criticized the controls and difficulty. GamePro claimed it a 'must for video adventurers'. Because the in-game map did not have any locations marked and there was no quest journal, many players criticized the game's difficulty as the goal of the game was achieved through careful attention to detail and constant exploration.