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Economist - Return to the fold Rosetta@home is a distributed computing project aimed at expanding our understanding of protein folding. Being able to predict the three dimensional structure of a protein based on its amino sequence is an important but unsolved problem in biology. What’s interesting is that in “fold it,” a video game created by Rosetta@home scientists where the goal is to fold proteins into their most stable configurations, many non-scientists found the correct configuration in less time than the computer. (The image above is a ribbon diagram of carbonic anhydrase.)

Economist - Return to the fold

Rosetta@home is a distributed computing project aimed at expanding our understanding of protein folding. Being able to predict the three dimensional structure of a protein based on its amino sequence is an important but unsolved problem in biology. What’s interesting is that in “fold it,” a video game created by Rosetta@home scientists where the goal is to fold proteins into their most stable configurations, many non-scientists found the correct configuration in less time than the computer.

(The image above is a ribbon diagram of carbonic anhydrase.)