Nature Structural & Molecular Biology paper online!

Started by beta_helix

beta_helix Staff Lv 1

Welcome to all the new players. Click here to get started: http://fold.it/portal/node/988864

As many of you already know, a protein causing AIDS in rhesus monkeys
that hadn't been solved for 15 years was resolved by Foldit players
and confirmed by x-ray crystallography. That paper was selected for an
Advance Online Publication (AOP) today in Nature Structural &
Molecular Biology; link to paper: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nsmb.2119

The crystal structure will be released to the Protein Data Bank soon:
http://www.rcsb.org/pdb/search/structidSearch.do?structureId=3sqf

We are so proud of everything that you Foldit players have
accomplished already, and we hope that this article will show the
world the power of citizen science! This is the first instance we are
aware of in which online gamers solved a longstanding scientific
problem and we want to thank you all for your amazing work on this and
everything else. Speaking of which, we are submitting another paper
this week comparing your recipes against the state of the art
algorithms.

infjamc Lv 1

…it would be nice if the players involved in this article could receive the "solved real-world scientific problem" achievement.

infjamc Lv 1

(For the record, I'm not asking this for myself, but rather for my three teammates who are specifically named in the article…)

beta_helix Staff Lv 1

http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nsmb.2119
correctly has the author list as:

Firas Khatib, Frank DiMaio, Foldit Contenders Group, Foldit Void Crushers Group, Seth Cooper, Maciej Kazmierczyk, Miroslaw Gilski, Szymon Krzywda, Helena Zabranska, Iva Pichova, James Thompson, Zoran Popović, Mariusz Jaskolski & David Baker

Wheelarch1588, that question gets asked a lot… but we currently do not have the resources to create that yet. Hopefully in the future!
Here is something coming soon: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yNAk2fsuI8

infjamc, great idea. We will do that for sure!