How a crowdsourced supercomputer has unlocked the secrets of the world's deadliest diseases
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telegraph.co.ukSETI@home. Founded in 1999 at Berkeley University in California, the project asked internet users across the world to donate their idle computing power to analyse data from gigantic radio telescopes.
But another, similar project, Folding@home, was seeking volunteers to analyse a biological process called protein folding, which is critical to the way coronavirus attacks human cells.
To King ‘it just seemed like an obvious thing to say yes to’.From her rented home in Northampton, 59-year-old Debbie Wiles also heard the call.
She had first joined the project about 14 years earlier, after a hospital infection left her frequently housebound with chronic fatigue syndrome.
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