The game “FoldIt” has emerged as one of the more prominent examples of how games have applications in health, challenging players to fold a computer image of a protein into shapes that could be used […]
Foldit, Do extreme 3d jigsaw puzzles: fold proteins! Instead of spending computer time planting corn or throwing birds around, why not put your clicks and swipes to use solving puzzles involving proteins? Proteins are extraordinarily […]
It seems that scientific research in the last two hundred years or so has made a full conceptual circle. In the good old days of the nineteenth century, any Englishman with a vaguely middle-class background, […]
‘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 […]
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