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.

David Baker and two Google DeepMind researchers have won the 2024 Nobel Prize for Chemistry. A video game was a fundamental part of their research, and you can play it today.

Foldit is a puzzle game anyone can play to try and help find a cure for the coronavirus. Citizen scientists have used it to help solve other tricky problems. Skip to main content.

On the other hand, it may also be a challenging puzzle game, which is the idea behind University of Washington's Foldit, a game that was launched way back in 2008.

Called Foldit, this game was developed by researchers from the University of Washington and requires players to solve complicated puzzles by folding protein chains to create new structures that ...

In a comparison involving 10 separate protein-folding puzzles, video game players matched the results generated by software solutions in three of the puzzles, outperformed them in five cases and ...

Since its inception, over half a million people have created accounts and played Foldit, and over 2,500 players have worked on the game’s coronavirus puzzles so far.

Fortunately, the challenge fit the current capabilities of the Foldit game, so Khatib and his colleagues put the puzzle out there for Foldit's teams to work on. "This was really kind of a last ...

The Foldit puzzle game, shown in this screenshot, is aimed at untangling the mysteries of protein folding. The protein's color is based on score and other properties, while objects such as red ...

The game is a protein-folding puzzler called Foldit, which was created at UW's Center for Game Science more than a decade ago and has attracted nearly more than 750,000 registered players since then.

More than 600,000 people have played Foldit since it was rolled out in 2008 by researchers from the University of Washington. "The game is like Tetris on steroids," Foldit co-creator Zoran Popovic ...

The online game poses protein-folding puzzles, and participants provided insights recently that solved the structure of an enzyme involved in reproduction of HIV ...