Just finished folding my first protein for the Folding@Home project. Cheers!

Finishing the protein is just half of the celebration. What really drove me to write this short blurb is the realization that it took me two and a half days to simulate a process that only occurs within one-millionth (10^-6) of a second.

Despite the speedy advancements in technology, there is still a limit to what technology can process and comprehend. The human body is such a mystery and as each day goes by, scientists around the world work towards understanding the human body because there can only be so much to learn.

It’s amazing, if you think about it, that the human body is so complex that we know more about computers and technology than ourselves. They said the same thing about the deep sea: we know much more about outer space than the pitch black ocean. It’s so possible.

It goes without arguing that the most powerful processor in the world is the human brain. It is eons ahead of our latest Penyrn and Phenom cores. No amount of electrical and computer engineering can beat the biological engineering of the body–engineering that has been going on for millions, billions and trillions of years.

Keep those proteins folding and save more beer for more proteins!

Let’s see what Dr. Vijay Pande and his elves at Stanford will let me fold next.