Gallica, the encyclopaedic scholarly library offers access to all kinds of media: print (monographs, journals and newspapers) in text and image formats, manuscripts, audio, images, maps and plans. Gallica is a portal to French digitised collections. Accordingly, it provides access to: a) items not under copyright, including those released via negotiation and digitised by the French National Library, either within the scope of mass digitisation programmes or to guarantee their continued existence; b) collections of cooperation public institutions (libraries, research institutes and so on) that were selected for their scientific complementarity and technological compatibility with the collection of the National Library. Although these items can be found in Gallica or via OAI-PMH, they are still contained within the partner institutions. ... [Information of the supplier, translated]
Our goal: to understand protein folding, misfolding, and related diseases. Proteins are biology's workhorses -- its "nanomachines." Before proteins can carry out these important functions, they assemble themselves, or "fold." The process of protein folding, while critical and fundamental to virtually all of biology, in many ways remains a mystery. Moreover, when proteins do not fold correctly (i.e. "misfold"), there can be serious consequences, including many well known diseases, such as Alzheimer's, Mad Cow (BSE), CJD, ALS, Huntington's, Parkinson's disease, and many Cancers and cancer-related syndromes. You can help by simply running a piece of software. Folding@home is a distributed computing project -- people from throughout the world download and run software to band together to make one of the largest supercomputers in the world. Every computer takes the project closer to our goals. Folding@home uses novel computational methods coupled to distributed computing, to simulate problems millions of times more challenging than previously achieved. We have had several successes. You can read about them on our Science page, on our Awards page, or go directly to our Results page. ... [Information of the supplier, modified]
