This video was really interesting and just the sort of thing I was hoping would be made : there was a lot of useful information in it, athough I'm slightly uneasy about the emphasis on helix bundles.
And I don't see any big issue in identifying players by name: it's not as if you're releasing personal information and player names appear in some of David Baker's videos.
Thanks for all the good work, and thanks fot taking such a deep interest in our designs!
Add a phrase into your general rules of usage "player names may be freely released at any time" - I certainly don't mind.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4d7UxMvg5sU from Dec 2014
discusses symmetric solutions starting at 12:58.
5:41 talks about "Scientific Discoveries by Foldit players".
6:15 has a slide showing results from spvincent, grabhorn, and mimi.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LetJMbu7uY part 1 and
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrAwWx7meTk part 2
are more talks from Nov 2014.
Interesting (even if I don't understand everything very well due to bad sound quality and my limited English knowledge).
We can all recognize similar designs we tried or didn't try. There is also the possibility to send pictures of our designs to the Wiki (so it's not necessary to disturb your scientific thinking by loosing time rewarding players):
http://foldit.wikia.com/wiki/Puzzle_1018b
I also like the non verbal reactions, like finding amazing the (I suppose) <a href=http://foldit.wikia.com/wiki/Puzzle_1018b?file=Irc_350869_1417561610_S74_silverberg.png">silverberg design. I had the same reaction seeing this design.</a>
It's encouraging to see that uncommon designs can catch your interest. Good for our creative motivation. Why not inviting an artist to evaluate these designs with his/her artistic point of view? (I would not be surprised that some good proteins have also some nice harmony).
It would be interesting to see other such kind of video covering other parts of the scientific process, either:
-how a specific design is further worked and synthetized in the labo;
-how you further consider or evaluate "normal" revisit puzzles;
-same for other categories of puzzles (de novos …)
-same, if possible, concerning strategies found in recipes
-same for the "game" and "social" aspect
-any post of conferences you made on Foldit, with anecdotes etc
Your feedback and "open doors" of your research activity is a good way to make us the feeling being a (small) part of your team.