Dunno if any of you foldies and rosetta people are interested, looks like the rosetta people have added another twist to the plot:
http://fold.it/portal/adobe_main
foldit looks like a game that allows you to try and optimise protein folding, just like your computer is doing, but with the human intuition added in. can we beat the danged machines?
i've played through the tutorials, not yet gone online to duel/challenge others yet, but I think most people should be able to get the general jist quite easily.
Although I have to say that as a protien scientist, I probably am quite bad, as what I think I know gets in the way of just sucking it and see what happens.
Quite fun anyway, and a good primer for protein folding education.
(not that we know for certain thats how it works, this is how we think it works
)
http://fold.it/portal/adobe_main
foldit looks like a game that allows you to try and optimise protein folding, just like your computer is doing, but with the human intuition added in. can we beat the danged machines?
i've played through the tutorials, not yet gone online to duel/challenge others yet, but I think most people should be able to get the general jist quite easily.
Although I have to say that as a protien scientist, I probably am quite bad, as what I think I know gets in the way of just sucking it and see what happens.
Quite fun anyway, and a good primer for protein folding education.
(not that we know for certain thats how it works, this is how we think it works
)