The Rosetta Protein Folding Game

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Now you have the chance to prove you're smarter than your Quad.:D

The Rosetta at Home team have designed this pretty neat game where you nudge and tweak a protein molecule into it's tightly packed lowest energy state and earn points for doing so.
It's a 50meg download and it looks like there are only Windows and Mac apps for now. Get it here. http://fold.it/portal/adobe_main/

Have a bash at the tutorial first before jumping straight onto an active molecule. It helps. (Believe me :o)

Pretty soon molecules will be released for the CASP08 challenge giving users the chance to prove they can beat the brute force mass computing approach.

If enough people join we can form an OcUK group and fold as a team.

My best score on 51 so far is 9547.

(for some reason my first attempt to log in always errors but the second is OK:confused:)

EDIT: Lot's of good info here about the science behind FoldIt! http://fold.it/portal/info/science
 
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^^
I thought that but it's a doddle. You just nudge stuff around press a button and see if the score goes up.

8969 on the second one. 102nd position. :)
 
Cob said:
I fail to see the point in that tbh. Surely F@H has that one covered.
Click to expand...

The link escapes me at the moment because I have been watching the Championship play off and the Heineken cup final and some Munstermen swarmed by table and insisted on supplying me with Kronenbourg for the intrusion... but there is a difference between what F@h and Rosetta and Predictor are doing although all three relate to protein folding.
 
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