Intelligent Design

[Ivor the Engineer]

Just heard about this on the BBC World Service programme Health Check:

http://fold.it/portal/adobe_main

It's a game to see if human intelligence is a better way to design and discover how proteins are folded than dumb computer algorithms.

Haven't played it myself, but I thought some of you may be interested in having a go. No knowledge of biology required!

 

[Klimax]

Just heard about this on the BBC World Service programme Health Check:

http://fold.it/portal/adobe_main

It's a game to see if human intelligence is a better way to design and discover how proteins are folded than dumb computer algorithms.

Haven't played it myself, but I thought some of you may be interested in having a go. No knowledge of biology required!

I was signed as beta-tester,but never got around to test out it...
However they are looking into possibility of combinating that with their main project ROSSETA at Home.

In the end it can end up as your computer would be trying to solve it by algorithm and you would try to improve that.At least that is my understanding.
At the link I gave there is link to project forum and some threads are about game.Not sure about read-only access...

Oh and BTW. RAH is testing algorithm against known protein structer so no ID...