Black Belt Folding sessions are a community event where Foldit players share their strategies on specific subjects via a live Google Hangouts on Air broadcast. Here is our complete list of videos!
We want to bring these back!
What would you like to learn about? :) Put your suggestions here and we'll try to match up your ideas with community members!
If you see a topic that you know about, or know who would be a great person to talk about that topic, send me a PM, or volunteer in the thread.
Let's bring back Black Belt Folding!
perhaps we could hand fold some shapes that can be shared to public. step a, then b, etc. liked brow's vision of a sheet ladder making 2 hairpin turns a few days ago. playing with it solo, but would be fun to share. using 1014 as basis, so it mutates. suggestions from good handfolders on a challenge like this would be useful, as would some more common designs
I would love to volunteer for something like this. I will have to wait and see about which topics I would know best, but I would love to give something back to the community that has given me so much :)
Also, sorry I haven't been folding very much lately, CASP took a lot out of me.
How to do electron density puzzles, contact map puzzles, predict secondary structures using jpred or other tools, and use the alignment tool. Using Pymol would be nice too, but Foldit doesn't output pdb files, so such a session would only be helpful for CASP structure pickers, for example.
Some folks are very organized in how they play Foldit, keeping records about all the steps they've done. I record many things as I play, but I'd like to see what others (like smilingone) do.
Somewhere in the video http://fold.it/portal/node/1998900 bkoep shows an example of helix-capping. It would be good to see how to make such a structure.
I would love to see a Black Belt Folding demo of how this is done! Looks as if the previous players who have done this have been lauded in Seattle labs as well so even more incentive to do well.
I have watched the Black Belt Folding videos which were excellent. Thank you to participants for your time and efforts. I am able to design some interesting structures but come unstuck when the amino acids are added. Is there some secret to the way AAs work? I use the Foldit-aas sheet to try and make some sense of it or should I just use mutate recipes and hope for the best?
I am really looking forward to viewing any new videos, thank you to all concerned.
I've problems with segment score in design. If I cut, I've a lot of backbone problems and it takes too much time with local rebuild or wiggle to recover good segment. If I don't cut and use only bands and freezes, there are less problem but it's hard to make a good design (like aligning sheets).
Remix tool does not work well in recipes. I wonder how to best use it with hand.
Currently, I only rely on the "rebuild worst" and quickfix recipes in order to recover the fragment score, but it takes much time.
For penalties in AAs not scoring well, I put every bad hydrophobic to ALA or LEU, but I suppose there must be some more skilled way to select the good one?
Would be much appreciated. I currently have a love/hate relationship with it (can't use it well at all, but like some of the features) and suspect that it's powerful and useful for Black Belt Folding. If such a thing already exists I would like to know.
