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OT: Foldit

For the non-NPR listeners, this afternoon's broadcast had a short piece on Foldit, solve puzzles for science. The scientist interviewed, Zoran Popovic (I believe) helped design this complex "game" for users to learn how to fold proteins by learning the biophysical "rules". His position is that there are people who have natural talents to "see" how complex proteins should be properly folded (better than computers, actually) and the game has spawned a wide variety of protein folding savants, that are good enough to actually attempt real protein folding conundrums.

http://fold.it/portal/

I'm sure that there are list members who find this absolutely fascinating (and probably are already protein folding masters on this site.)

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