Gamers solve structure of protease amino acid

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In case you haven't seen it yet, here's a great example of how spatial reasoning skills, honed in 3D games, was applied to a real world problem, with excellent results...

http://games.yahoo.com/blogs/plugged-in/online-gamers-crack-aids-enzyme-puzzle-161920724.html

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Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top

Nice, does anyone know where to get this "game"?? I am a biologist and very interested in how it looks like.

 

Reply #2 from Elemental Forums Top

You can find it here:

http://fold.it/

 

I couldn't really make heads or tails in the 5 minutes I gave it attention. But I'm glad other people were more diligent. 

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Reply #3 from Sins Forums Top

BTW--I had read about this the first day.  Totally awesome...Gamers FTW!

I worked for an attorney/owner of a business once and they spent two years trying to develop a consistent, impartial system to rate risk/benefit  values for customers and could not find a way to keep evaluator employs from injecting bias.  I spent a weekend developing a "game" approach that would make people "play the game by the rules" and Monday morning the owner almost fell out of his chair and they implemented it immediately.  At the time, I was a temp employ hired to answer phones for six weeks.

Gamers will save the world one day...that Ender guy ya know.