Folding@home vs pybossa
A side-by-side look at Folding@home and pybossa. For an in-depth review of either product, follow the links below.
Folding@home
Science & Research
Folding@home is a distributed computing project that uses volunteer computing power for disease research. It simulates protein folding to help researchers better understand diseases like Alzheimer's, Huntington's, Parkinson's disease, and many cancers.
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pybossa
Development
Pybossa is an open source crowdsourcing framework written in Python that allows you to create crowdsourcing projects to get humans to help with tasks that computers find difficult, like image labeling or transcription. It has integration with Amazon Mechanical Turk.
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