Gamers design brand new proteins using Foldit
A team of researchers encoded their specialized knowledge into the computer game Foldit to enable citizen scientists to successfully design synthetic proteins for the first time. The Institute for Protein Design at the University of Washington School of Medicine led the multiinstitutional effort. There are more possible proteins than there are atoms in the universe. It s exciting to think that now anyone can help explore this vast space of possibilities, said senior coauthor David Baker, professor of
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