Folding@home - 100% overall completion time estimate

[kasdashd]

Are there any ETA's for the different folding@home project, like covid-19, at least for the folding part?

 

People have been folding@home now for almost 25 years, but how long until folding@home won't be needed for these diseases anymore?

 

I think many people would like a time estimate for when the folding@home project will be 100% completed, at least with the current projects and diseases.

[Lurick]

when new diseases stop appearing and a period of many years goes without new ones being discovered then folding will be done, maybe.

 

cure for cancer is currently scheduled to be done folding in the year 2029

cure for HIV/AIDs is scheduled the year after

/sarcasm

[Zando_]

From their page here: "The Folding@home project (FAH) is dedicated to understanding protein folding, the diseases that result from protein misfolding and aggregation, and novel computational ways to develop new drugs in general. Here, we briefly describe our goals, what we are doing, and some highlights so far." 

 

F@H is a bunch of simulations to try and figure out why protein folding fucks up, nobody has an estimate of when it will be "done". There isn't a set amount of math to do, as scientists don't know what the problem is, thus why they run folding simulations to begin with. You'll see a lot of "may", "appears to be", "hopefully", etc on their explainers of the various projects for specific diseases. It's a big ole guessing game, really most (all?) science is. 

[GDRRiley]

There is no end point as there is still lots of work to be done and there isn't some fixed goals outside of specific projects who even then likely don't know when their research will be done.