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| Folding@Home 2.0 - An Online Protein Folding Game                  |
|   from the folding-@-play dept.                                    |
|   posted by timothy on Thursday May 08, @17:37 (Biotech)           |
|   http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/05/08/2112208 |
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[0]a boy named woo writes “Tired of justifying your gaming addiction? Now
you can really help accomplish something while you play… thanks to
Howard Hughes Medical Institute researcher David Baker at the University
of Washington.” In collaboration with others, Baker has designed a game,
called “[1]Foldit,” with a practical outcome: [2]players manipulate
on-screen images of protein chains and attempt to predict their folding
patterns. From the article: “‘Our main goal was to make sure that anyone
could do it, even if they didn’t know what biochemistry or protein
folding was,’ says [co-creator Zoran] Popovic. At the moment, the game
only uses proteins whose three-dimensional structures have been solved by
researchers. But, says Popovic, ’soon we’ll be introducing puzzles for
which we don’t know the solution.’”

Discuss this story at:
http://games.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=08/05/08/2112208

Links:
0. http://ootunes.com/
1. http://www.fold.it/portal/adobe_main/
2. http://www.hhmi.org/news/foldit20080508.html