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Foldit Players Do It Again!

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Foldit Players Do It Again!

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September 16, 2016
by Saira Mortier

Circle with Foldit GraphicFresh off the Nature press: “Determining crystal structures through crowdsourcing and coursework”. As the paper abstract notes, “Introduction of a new feature into the computer game Foldit allows players to build and real-space refine structures into electron density maps. To assess the usefulness of this feature, we held a crystallographic model-building competition between trained crystallographers, undergraduate students, Foldit players and automatic model-building algorithms. After removal of disordered residues, a team of Foldit players achieved the most accurate structure.”

Good job, Foldit community! Read more about it here.

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