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New Fad is Foldit Computer Game That Tackles Protein Folding

by Kathy Jones on August 08, 2010 at 9:26 AM News on IT in Healthcare

The new age game of Foldit, which turns one of the hardest problems in molecular biology into a game a bit reminiscent of Tetris has become immensely popular. The game is attractive as it allows them to fold a protein rather than stack coloured blocks or rescue a princess.

New Fad is Foldit Computer Game That Tackles Protein Folding

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The project launched by biochemists and computer scientists at the University of Washington two years ago harnesses the brainpower of computer gamers to solve medical problems.

And Foldit is a success-it turns out that people can, indeed, compete with supercomputers in this arena.

Analysis shows that players bested the computers on problems that required radical moves, risks and long-term vision-the kinds of qualities that computers do not possess.

"People in the scientific community have known about Foldit for a while, and everybody thought it was a great idea, but the really fundamental question in most scientists' minds was 'What can it produce in terms of results? Is there any evidence that it's doing something useful?'" Nature quoted principal investigator Zoran Popovic, a UW associate professor of computer science and engineering, as saying.

"I hope this paper will convince a lot of those people who were sitting on the sidelines, and the whole genre of scientific discovery games will really take off," he said.

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