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Solving protein structures with social computation

In just 16 days gamers solved a protein structure that had eluded computational methods for a decade.  Distributed social computing?  What other computationally difficult problems are susceptible to this kind of approach?

Posted on September 22, 2011Categories linkstreamTags biology, computation, distributed, folding, foldit, game, protein, research, science, virusLeave a comment on Solving protein structures with social computation
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