The Folding@Gnome applet is a GUI that keeps track of the background protein folding progress done by Folding@Home The Folding@Gnome applet is merely a GUI in which you can adjust your Folding@Home settings and view the folding progress. Folding@Home is a background process that uses spare CPU cycles to calculate the folding of proteins. For more info, please visit Stanford's Folding@Home homepage.