Researchers at the Baker Lab have recently used Foldit players' work to help develop a new method for designing proteins. They are preparing a research paper to share the results, and contributing Foldit players can opt to be included as authors of the paper.
If you played any "Monomer Design" puzzles between 2009 and 2019, and you would like to be included among the authors of the paper, please fill out this Google form.
opt in
Replying to this thread most likely won't count, see the link in the post to opt in.
To prevent fraud I would expect a confirmation e-mail to be sent to our registered e-mail addresses upon completing the opt-in form. Is this planned ? I would like to see the choices linked to the nickname I entered.
We will send a confirmation email before the author list is finalized.
I received an external email today from "Foldit Publications" (foldit.publications@gmail.com).
It's not a confirmation, just another invitation to fill out the same Google form.
We sent the Foldit Publications email to eligible Foldit players that might have missed the News post.
The confirmation email will come once the paper draft is available to review – probably in the next week or two.
A draft of the paper is available here (Foldit player names have not yet been added):
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.07.23.218917v1
After skimming the above article, I like the
diversity of Foldit player designs shown in Fig. S7C
and the rather American color scheme in Fig. S11B.
I am curious what players' designs are shown
in Fig. S7C. If it isn't too late, could you add
the #'s 1-35 to each one and then in the caption
have a list of player names for each design #?
If 1-35 doesn't work well, maybe # the rows from
1-5 and the columns from 1-7 and then list them
in the captions like 1-1 to 1-7 for the top row
from left to right and 5-1 to 5-7 for the bottom
row from left to right.
Similar things could be done for other figures
showing player designs, like Figs. 2 and S4A.