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Folding@home is a distributed computing project aimed at understanding protein folding, misfolding, and related diseases, such as Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and various cancers. Launched in October 2000 by Stanford University, the project allows volunteers to contribute their computer's processing power to help simulate the physical movements of atoms in proteins. Participants can download software that runs simulations on their own computers, and the collected data is used to model how proteins fold and misfold.