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Cool protein folding game

Protein folding is such a complex, amazing, and beautiful phenomena. I have often wondered why someone didn’t come up with a program where you can visually play with the globs and get a sense of how the pieces attract and fold. Well, someone has! Last year!

Foldit is a game using distributed computing a la SETI@home, and crowdsourcing. Too cool!

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2 Responses to “Cool protein folding game”

  1. Zack Says:
    May 12, 2009 at 12:40 pm | Reply

    I’ve seen this for DNA sequencing as well. Fun to play and possibly doing some real good!

  2. Alex Streczyn-Woods Says:
    May 12, 2009 at 1:01 pm | Reply

    Oh Wow! Where?

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