National Center for Manufacturing Sciences » gamification http://www.ncms.org Collaboration That Works Wed, 20 Mar 2013 17:20:36 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 You Gotta Know When to Fold ‘Em- Gamification and HPC http://www.ncms.org/index.php/2011/11/03/you-gotta-know-when-to-fold-em/ http://www.ncms.org/index.php/2011/11/03/you-gotta-know-when-to-fold-em/#comments Thu, 03 Nov 2011 14:34:42 +0000 admin http://www.ncms.org/?p=7111 November 3, 2011. Not long ago, a group of gamers did in ten days what a world’s worth of molecular biologists had been unable to accomplish in more than a decade: collaborating online with a video game called Foldit, they identified the unique structure of a retroviral protease that lurks in a virus found in Rhesus monkeys. The virus in question bears more than a small similarity to AIDS… and without the precise structure of this enzyme, scientists would have had essentially no chance of engineering a cure.

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