‘Gamers’ tag is a poor fit, whichever way you Foldit Dan Golding, University of Melbourne The phrases “real world scientific progress” and “the power of online games” are strange bedfellows. Yet surprisingly, they found themselves […]
Foldit allows players to create new shapes of proteins by randomly folding digital molecules on their computer. In the journal Nature, scientists wrote they have been puzzled by the protein’s structure for over a decade but it took the players a few days to produce the enzyme’s model. […]
The next time someone catches you playing a video game and asks what you are doing, you can now say that you are helping to save lives. Sure, that explanation may not save your job […]
Following the failure of a wide range of attempts to solve the crystal structure of M-PMV retroviral protease by molecular replacement, we challenged players of the protein folding game Foldit to produce accurate models of […]
Exposing American K–12 students to science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) content is a national initiative. Game Design Through Mentoring and Collaboration targets students from underserved communities and uses their interest in video games as […]
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