Thanks for sharing the Wired article. Since teams seem to be better than
individuals at figuring out folding patterns it might be fun to try and get
a friendly competition organized between teams from various independent
schools. A great possible side effect would be getting the members of our
science departments working across their disciplinary boundaries.
Fred
On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 9:00 AM, Jeff Ritter <jritter@sjs.org> wrote:
> This is a great project. Here is an article from WIred a while back where
> a boy and his family actually competed internationally. Pretty interesting
> story, project, and results:
>
>
> http://www.wired.com/medtech/genetics/magazine/17-05/ff_protein?currentPage=all
>
> Jeff Ritter
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>
> On 9/22/2010 7:12 AM, Fred Bartels wrote:
>
>> Apparently so. A crowd-sourced game-based effort to figure out how
>> proteins
>> fold. You should definitely have students in your school who are
>> interested
>> in biology take a look.
>>
>> Here is the story:
>> http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=129914162
>>
>> Here is the game site: http://fold.it/portal/
>>
>> Thanks to Alex Ragone for his tweet that brought FoldIt to my attention.
>>
>> Fred
>>
>>
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