Put the 'FoldIt Prefs' folder (delivered with this application) into the 'System Folder' (not in the Preference folder!).
To make the best use of 'FoldIt (light)', you'll find three sources of help:
1/ An on-line Help.
2/ Balloon help is supported.
3/ A printable stand alone document, 'FoldIt User Manual'.
Three 'FoldIt (light)' binary files (suffix '.FIT') can be found in the 'FoldIt (light)' Folder. To start and get used to the program just double-click on the myoglobin file '1MBA.FIT'.
Two other binary files ('Batch83.RamW' & 'Thr.trAng.StatW') shows the capabilities of 'FoldIt (light)' to batch process structural data.
A PDB text file ('pdb3pcy.ent') has also been put in this folder as a remainder of what PDB files look like (to view this text file in a clean fashion, set font to monaco 9). Finally, the text file 'HEM.PDB' containing the coordinates of an hem group illustrates the capability of 'FoldIt (light)' to display the structure of any compound as long as the PDB format is respected.
As a remainder, this is the address of the Brookhaven ftp anonymous server where you can get all the published protein coordinates structures:
To help you working more rapidly with FoldIt (light), a folder named 'FoldIt (light) Files' containing a set of 20 protein files can be downloaded for our server at the URL:
ftp://ftp.imag.fr/pub/TIMC/FoldIt.html
Once downloaded and unpacked, the content of this folder should be transferred into the 'Batch Fldr' located in the 'FoldIt (light) v.4.3.0' folder.