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Tuesday, September 20, 2011

Gamers crack AIDS code where others have failed - you can make a difference...

Researchers at the University of Washington announced on Sunday that through the online game FoldIt, players had deciphered an AIDS-related protein model.




FoldIt is an online game in which humans try to solve one of the hardest computational problems in biology: protein folding. You don't need to know anything about biology to play the game, although a little background will help. Most of the players of foldit are not biologists.

Read the full article here.

Join in solving more problems with Foldit here





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