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Folding@home vs pyget

A side-by-side look at Folding@home and pyget. For an in-depth review of either product, follow the links below.

Folding@home

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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pyget

pyget

Development

Pyget is a free and open source download manager written in Python. It allows downloading files over HTTP and HTTPS protocols, supports pausing and resuming downloads, speed limits, username/password authentication, HTTPS, and HTTP proxies.

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