As NPR's On the Media points out
about Foldit, a "
new online game [that] helps solve medical mysteries".
Using a game available to anyone online called Foldit, gamers successfully built a model of an enzyme crucial to understanding how many diseases, such as AIDS, do their damage. Solving the crystal structure of the M-PMV retroviral protease has stumped scientists for more than ten years.
Foldit is available for
MAC, Windows and Linux. (no phone apps yet.) See more at their
wiki. ...Funny, it wasn't even a full year after
Jane McGonigal lectured at TED that "
Gaming can make a better world", and sure enough, here's proof of that!
On the heals of this is
phylo, a crowd sourcing
game to solve multiple sequence alignment issues with RNA/DNA.
Slashdot points out how "
gamers playing Phylo have beaten a state-of-the-art program at aligning regions of 521 disease-associated genes form different species"
On the heals of this is phylo, a crowd sourcing game to solve multiple sequence alignment issues with RNA/DNA. Slashdot points out how "gamers playing Phylo have beaten a state-of-the-art program at aligning regions of 521 disease-associated genes form different species"
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