56Kmodern » social gaming http://www.56kmodern.com game truth, shun error Tue, 18 Oct 2011 14:58:12 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 fold.it http://www.56kmodern.com/timeray/361/fold-it/ http://www.56kmodern.com/timeray/361/fold-it/#comments Thu, 21 Jan 2010 14:15:29 +0000 56K http://www.56kmodern.com/?p=361 Tired of gaming away the day just to kill some time? How about gaming and at the same time helping cure AIDS? In fold.it, you have to solve puzzles by folding proteins. Originally it has been designed as an application that is run by a global computer network (you’ve certainly heard or read about distributed computing), but the more complex the structures got, the more errors showed up, proving that a complex matter like protein folding can not be completely calculated by even the most advanced software.

56kmodern0023PM(12)Eventually, its developers decided to rely on human genius: They released the software as a puzzle solving game, and now thousands of people can invent new proteins, enzymes or antibodies that could – one day – cure diseases, help decompose toxic waste or dissolve carbon dioxide. And you really want to go on playing Tetris?

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