A protein puzzle game called Foldit turns up 99 promising ways to confound coronavirus. by Alan Boyle on April 1, 2020 at 9:20 pm April 1, 2020 at 11:34 pm. Share 1.2k Tweet Share Reddit Email.

The team consulted with game developers in creation of Foldit, which along with human intuition introduces a competitive element to protein folding, allowing for players to create teams that will ...

Over a three-week period, gamers playing Foldit, an online protein-folding game, helped to map out the structure of an enzyme that could be used to help fight HIV and AIDS. Advertisement.

A new computer game called FoldIt encourages gamers to attempt to fold proteins into the lowest energy structure. From the FoldIt website: [K]nowing the structure of a protein […] By Highlight ...

The protein puzzle game is still being actively developed. By Mark Hachman. Senior Editor, PCWorld Oct 9, 2024 10:51 am PDT. Image: YouTube / Fold.it.

On the one hand, protein folding seems to be tedious enough that Stanford created Folding@home, a program that practically used the collective power of PlayStation 3 consoles for that purpose.

Researchers say that players of a protein-folding game called Foldit are coming up with molecular "recipes" that rival their own complex algorithms.. One of the recipes — a computerized tool ...

Gamers help biochemists understand the structure of a protein that is key to the growth of HIV in about 10 days. Foldit game leads to AIDS research breakthrough - CNET X ...

Two years ago students and instructors from the University of Washington applied human intuition to the problem of protein folding with the game FoldIt. Since then the game has proven that even ...

The online community of Foldit players is now helping the researchers as they attempt to crack "the protein-folding problem," one of molecular biology's toughest challenges.

Gamers played a protein-folding game and solved an AIDS riddle that, well, stumped scientists for years. The gamers unlocked the key protein involved in the reproduction of HIV, scientists ...

"The game is like Tetris on steroids," Foldit co-creator Zoran Popovic tells Shots. Gamers start with a protein that looks like a necklace. Instead of beads or pearls, amino acids hang from the ...