Will F@H study synthesized RNA?

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Will F@H study synthesized RNA?

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I do both F@H and eteRNA and I am wondering if F@H will study the synthesized RNA that is created from eteRNA.
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Re: Will F@H study synthesized RNA?

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I wasn't able to find a project description containing the term "eteRNA". Nor have I heard of what that is. I'll have to look that up. I did however do a search for all projects that have "DNA" or "RNA" in their descriptions, and here's the projects I found that could be related to what you're talking about.
http://fah-web.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/fah ... ned?p=3131
http://fah-web.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/fah ... ned?p=2021
http://fah-web.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/fah ... ned?p=4400
http://fah-web.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/fah ... nned?p=301
http://fah-web.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/fah ... nned?p=388
http://fah-web.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/fah ... ned?p=5765
http://fah-web.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/fah ... ned?p=7800

Also, this may or may not be relevant, but we did have a now-complete distributed-computing project Genome@home. http://genomeathome.stanford.edu/

EDIT: oh wow its a game, similar to Foldit. Here I was thinking it was some sort of molecule! :D In that case those project descriptions should indicate that that some of the researchers are interested in studying the folding of RNA and related ideas. I've never heard of F@h using eteRNA as a basis for their projects, although I do know in some occasions Rosetta@home is useful. I'm sure some of the more knowledgeable people on here can give you a better answer, but that's what I know.
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Re: Will F@H study synthesized RNA?

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eteRNA is a program where users design synthetic RNA and some of the designs actually get synthesized in a lab at Stanford University run by Dr. Rhiju Das. Dr. Das recently co-authored a paper with Dr. Pande that was published in PNAS. Based on the past history of F@H studying the folding of RNA it is possible that in the future F@H may study RNA that was designed from eteRNA.
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