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== Volunteer contributions ==
Rosetta@home depends on computing power donated by individual project members for its research.  As of March 28, 2020, about 53,000 users from 150 countries were active members of Rosetta@home, together contributing idle processor time from about 54,800 computers for a combined average performance of over 1.7 PetaFLOPS.

Users are granted BOINC credits as a measure of their contribution. The credit granted for each workunit is the number of decoys produced for that workunit multiplied by the average claimed credit for the decoys submitted by all computer hosts for that workunit.  This custom system was designed to address significant differences between credit granted to users with the standard BOINC client and an optimized BOINC client, and credit differences between users running Rosetta@home on Windows and Linux operating systems.  The amount of credit granted per second of CPU work is lower for Rosetta@home than most other BOINC projects.  Rosetta@home is thirteenth out of over 40 BOINC projects in terms of total credit.
Rosetta@home users who predict protein structures submitted for the CASP experiment are acknowledged in scientific publications regarding their results. Users who predict the lowest energy structure for a given workunit are featured on the Rosetta@home homepage as Predictor of the Day, along with any team of which they are a member.  A User of the Day is chosen randomly each day to be on the homepage also, from among users who have made a Rosetta@home profile.

== References ==

== External links ==
Official website
Baker Lab Baker Lab website
David Baker's Rosetta@home journal
BOINC Includes platform overview, and a guide to install BOINC and attach to Rosetta@home
BOINCstats – Rosetta@home Detailed contribution statistics
RALPH@home Website for Rosetta@home alpha testing project
Rosetta@home video on YouTube Overview of Rosetta@home given by David Baker and lab members
Rosetta Commons Academic collaborative for developing the Rosetta platform
The Rosetta canon, a list of landmark papers in the development of Rosetta
Kuhlman lab webpage, home of RosettaDesign
Online Rosetta services

Rosetta Commons list of available servers
Robetta Protein structure prediction server
ROSIE Docking, design, etc. multifunctional server-set
RosettaDesign Protein design server
RosettaBackrub Flexible backbone / protein design server