Wednesday, September 22, 2010

Re: Students Can Help Cure Diseases While Playing A Video Game?

This is a great project. Here is an article from WIred a while back
where a boy and his family actually competed internationally. Pretty
interesting story, project, and results:

http://www.wired.com/medtech/genetics/magazine/17-05/ff_protein?currentPage=all

Jeff Ritter
Director of Technology
St. John's School
2401 Claremont Ln.
Houston, TX 77019
713-850-4020

On 9/22/2010 7:12 AM, Fred Bartels wrote:
> Apparently so. A crowd-sourced game-based effort to figure out how proteins
> fold. You should definitely have students in your school who are interested
> in biology take a look.
>
> Here is the story:
> http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=129914162
>
> Here is the game site: http://fold.it/portal/
>
> Thanks to Alex Ragone for his tweet that brought FoldIt to my attention.
>
> Fred
>

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