On May 8, Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) researchers at the University of Washington are bringing the arcane world of protein folding to the online gaming arena with the launch of “Foldit,” a ...

The game invites people with no background in science to help solve protein structure problems. More than 400,000 people have played the game and Foldit players have been named as co-authors in ...

As a postdoc, Treuille founded the team that built the protein folding game Foldit, the first open online game that lets untrained amateurs speed up biochemical research by solving fun visual puzzles.