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+[ excerpt from developer's site ]
+
+This is the distribfold.org's client. 
+
+It makes protein structures to help sample the enormous size of
+protein conformatoinal space. We hope to find a few good samples
+and understand how a large computation can help crack the problem
+of predicting protein structure - the protein folding problem.
+
+Proteins have a vast number of folds, larger than we could hope to
+compute even with distributed computing. Usually only one fold is
+found in nature. The Distributed Folding Project aims to test our
+new protein folding algorithm. We want see if it can reproduce
+natural protein folds after making extremely large samples of many
+different folds.
+
+With your help, we will create the largest samples of protein folds
+ever computed. First we will make 1 Billion (1,000,000,000) folds
+for 5 small proteins, then we will try 10 Billion (10,000,000,000)
+for another 10 large proteins. By the end of our first phase, we
+hope to make over 100 Billion protein folds spanning 15 different
+proteins.
+
+WWW: http://www.distributedfolding.org/