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hello, my beautiful protein-folding game

  • Oct. 18th, 2008 at 5:57 AM
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there is a game online, i guess made by some computer/biochem people from the university of washington where you FOLD PROTEINS.  it's called "foldit."  the cool part is that they use your results from playing the game to help computer-model the way proteins they are researching actually fold.  so when you play, you are helping science :)  or you can feel all right telling yourself that.  there's also a competitive element to it because they rank you based on a point system - the lower the energy in your conformation, the more points.  so you can go smack-talk the other science geeks.

fold.it/portal/