Behind the Paper: Protein design by citizen scientists

Started July 16, 2019 by bkoep

bkoep Staff Lv 1

We recently posted a short perspective piece about the latest Foldit paper!

Check it out:
https://bioengineeringcommunity.nature.com/users/264137-brian-koepnick/posts/50212-protein-design-by-citizen-scientists

Susume Lv 1

September 19, 2019

Another mention of foldit's Nature paper, this time in the Advanced Light Source newsletter:
https://als.lbl.gov/a-citizen-science-computer-game-for-protein-design/

Susume Lv 1

November 01, 2019

And in SciTechDaily:
https://scitechdaily.com/gamers-accurately-design-folded-proteins-as-realistic-as-those-created-by-experts/

Bruno Kestemont Lv 1

November 04, 2019

It turns out from the link you shared that a boing user named avi originated the idea to create Foldit:
http://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/forum_thread.php?id=2157