What has Folding accomplished ?

[destro23]

I know i've skimmed some of the papers written on folding. But have there been any "Because of the Folding Project....." we have now developed this medicine... we now have pushed research and several companies to....

[dwjj]

I think it's too early to judge. This is a new field, and not only is new science being developed, but how that's going to contribute to medicine might not be predictable.

It can take years or decades to go from starting to understand a disease to having a drug. Folding is a tool to understand how certain biological functions work. How and when that tool is going to going to be directly responsible for some major breakthrough is anybody's guess.

[sf37]

I have said almost the same thing before, and this is very much the point.  There will never be a "Because of the folding project" moment, simple as.  It is entirely patronising to suggest that it would, too, because cures only come from years of very hard work, toiling and testing in a laboratory.  In the very least, you cannot accurately simulate protein folding until you fully understand all the rules and processes, and even the most astute scientific minds cannot fully fathom this today.  At the very best it will simply be a cog in a big machine.  

The publications to date are as much for F@H's benefit as their own; I have read quite a few and they have just an odd sentence saying that the F@H data is consistent with their experimental data.

[destro23]

ok i had the same opinions. But just in case someone knew something i didn't about Folding.