Tuesday, September 20, 2011
Gamers Crack AIDS Puzzle
In what might be a significant breakthrough in HIV/AIDS research, online gamers playing a game called Foldit have cracked a key protein structure problem that has had scientists scratching their heads for years. And the gamers did it in three weeks. You can read a scientific account of how researchers recruited Foldit players to work on the modeling problem and ultimately solve the crystal structure of M-PMV retroviral protease in a paper published online this week in the journal Nature Structural & Molecular Biology. Foldit invites players to predict protein structures...
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