Foldit

Richard Lowenberg

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Feb 3, 2012, 11:08:13 PM2/3/12

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Recommended by Howard Rheingold. RL

Crowdsourced science, citizen science, whatever you want to call it, meets gamification.

Understanding how proteins fold is essential to research into cancer, HIV/AIDS, Alzheimers.

"Foldit is a revolutionary new computer game enabling you to contribute to important scientific research.

This page describes the science behind Foldit and how your playing can help."

http://fold.it/portal/info/science

The Science Behind Foldit | Foldit

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Richard Lowenberg
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Tom Johnson

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Feb 4, 2012, 9:45:27 AM2/4/12

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tkx.

-tj (in Bangkok)

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Arlo Barnes

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Feb 4, 2012, 6:20:44 PM2/4/12

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I downloaded Foldit before it was cool (well, it was mentioned in Science magazine, where I first saw it, but I mean before PennyArcade mentioned it, before NPR ran a story on it) but I do not play it much because it is really hard (not a bad thing, but I do think it limits the audience; citizen scientists who want things a bit easier have the Zooniverse).

-Arlo James Barnes

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