The project is significant as the it will help make the Folding@home project easier to use, and more accessible to the masses which in turn will enable an increase in client use to increase research for the Stanford Pande Lab.
The Folding@home client is a complex piece of software; if the project is to be completed successfully it must be understood thoroughly. This can be achieved by effective research of the problem domain and will be soon starting work of collecting requirements and creating preliminary designs for the system.
The next chapter will focus on the requirements collection, design, implementation and testing of the first iteration of the project which will look at the extraction of data from the current and past stable releases of the Folding@home client.