 Of all the major distributed computing projects involved in protein research , Folding @ home is the only one not to use the BOINC platform . Both Rosetta @ home and Folding @ home study protein misfolding diseases such as Alzheimer 's disease , but Folding @ home does so much more exclusively . Folding @ home almost exclusively uses all @-@ atom molecular dynamics models to understand how and why proteins fold ( or potentially misfold , and subsequently aggregate to cause diseases ) . In other words , Folding @ home 's strength is modeling the process of protein folding , while Rosetta @ home 's strength is computational protein design and prediction of protein structure and docking . 
