[dba-Tech] The game Foldit

Jim Lawrence accessd at shaw.ca
Thu Aug 5 20:04:23 CDT 2010


The program/game has been around for a while I understand. I heard it
mentioned a month or so ago but never thought about it and now it seem to
have been publically announced and seems to be interesting.

Jim



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It's mentioned today on The Register.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/08/05/foldit_victor/


On 5 Aug 2010 at 16:37, Jim Lawrence wrote:

> Has anyone heard of the game Foldit? If you have a little time to
> waste and you want to do something that could be important as well
> this might be the challenge for you.
> 
> http://www.techflash.com/seattle/2010/08/uw_game_proves_humans_can_bea
> t_supe rcomputers_in_folding_proteins.html
> 
> The game runs of your desktop but has version in Linux, Apple and
> Windows and can be entered/accessed via the following link.
> 
> http://fold.it/portal/
> 
> Jim
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