Folding@Home is quite the program. It has been running for 11 years now (I'm an active folder for a little over 2 years) and has done some marvelous things in my opinion. We can only imagine what will be possible in the next 11 years.
Many of you reading will probably agree with me that the most of us are folding to cure cancer (and possibly some other diseases). I know there is a big community of anti-Huntington/Alzheimer folders (atlasfolder for one). Still, most of us think cancer is the primary disease which should be tackled.
Now don't get me wrong, I am not asking to suddenly focus most of your attention on cancer. I am actually for research into a wide variety of diseases and was not 'angry' because all Bigadv and most SMP projects relate to viral diseases. I actually encourage the PG to tackle a wider variety of diseases, but that is a different discussion.
Now, back to cancer. At this moment, I only know one active cancer related project (7600). The latest paper about cancer/p53 was released in 2006, and currently there are no projects relating to this protein to my knowledge. So I ask, together with many of my fellow folders, to develop more projects tackling cancer. It is one of the most deadly diseases in this world, and many of us have lost friends and family members to this awful disease. I realize cancer is not one disease but rather a group of diseases, so we would all understand that not all of these projects can target multiple cancers at once.
This may not be the best reason, but doing active research into cancer could be great publicity for the F@H and lure more folders.
I hope you will listen to my plea
and don't forget, fold on!