[emailprotected] is a computing project that stimulates protein folding, computational drug design, and various other molecular dynamics for disease research. It tackles diseases like cancer, Alzheimers, Huntingtons, and Parkinsons. It has announced that now it will deal with COVID-19 as well.

The project is bringing together researchers worldwide who aim to understand the coronavirus better. This will speed up the effort going to developing therapies and cures that will save lives.

You can download [emailprotected] on your Mac. By doing this, you can donate the computational resources that you havent used to the [emailprotected] Consortium. Here, researchers are attempting to examine the structures of drugs that could potentially help in the new therapies for COVID-19.

Prior to installing [emailprotected], you need to know that it can use up a lot of CPU cycles. Thus, it is advisable that you run it only when your Mac is sitting idle.

To see the visual representation of the whichever molecules your Mac at that time, you can click the Viewer button.

Since this process takes up a lot of power, if you switch your laptop to battery power, the [emailprotected] client will automatically pause. You can change this setting as well by going to Configure Advanced Power.

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