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Tag: protein

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 2011-09-22Categories linkstreamTags biology, computation, distributed, folding, foldit, game, protein, research, science, virusLeave a comment on Solving protein structures with social computation
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