New Update: Lua Version 2.0 and Cutpoints

[jflat06]

Hey everyone,

There are two items of note in this update - the first is that after being tested thoroughly in the developer preview by your fellow players, the new lua interface is finally being released into the main game.

The second is a new feature on some puzzles - cutpoints. Cutpoints are 'cuts' in the backbone of the protein, allowing you to move to two separated pieces independently. However, just because they can move independently doesn't mean you can place things however you want - The two ends still must match up as if they were connected in order to score well.

To start you out on cutpoints, we're posting a puzzle with quite a few of them - one at every secondary structure change.

[infjamc]

Now that cutpoints are available, it would be nice to be able to set the relative importance of the backbone term of the score function. This can be useful because, as things currently stand, the wiggle tool will attempt to glue the pieces back together– which is nice when that's the desired behavior, but less useful if one wants to manipulate the individual pieces independent of each other as an intermediate step.