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Distributed Humans Smarter Than Distributed Computers In Solving Complex...
Foldit Foldit players have control over which parts of the protein they want to move. In this picture, a player uses rubber bands (purple) to pull together two sheets, or long flat regions of the...
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Gamers Solve AIDS-Related Enzyme Puzzle, Helping Scientists Search for Novel...
Retroviral Protease Structure Starting from a quite inaccurate model (red), Foldit player spvincent generated a model (yellow) considerably more similar to the later determined crystal structure...
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Why Crunching Data For Science Is the Future of Game-Playing
Learning Foldit This screen depicts the fireworks display you get when solving a puzzle challenge in Foldit's 32-puzzle demo. The majority of players who try Foldit give up on the first day, said the...
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Puzzle-loving gamers are better at solving molecular biology problems than a supercomputer, according to a new study published today in the journal Nature. Playing a game…
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Using software at home, gamers took just three weeks to solve a decade-old enzymatic enigma, in a breakthrough that could have implications for AIDS treatment. The…
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The other night I wanted to kill some time before "30 Rock" started, so I sat down and tried to build a strand of RNA. I clicked a yellow adenine avatar to turn it into…
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