Protein folding collaborative game
A new academic computer game lets players compete in solving biological puzzles. Players organize into teams, trying to determine which patterns certain proteins will develop. Fold.It was launched by a University of Washington scientist.
It's a form of crowdsourcing, related to human computing, as the site explains:
We’re collecting data to find out if humans' pattern-recognition and puzzle-solving abilities make them more efficient than existing computer programs at pattern-folding tasks. If this turns out to be true, we can then teach human strategies to computers and fold proteins faster than ever!
Professor Baker also maintains a related project, Rosetta@home.
(thanks to George Brett)
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