We're excited to announce that the Winter Science Chat will be next taking place on March 8th at 8:00pm GMT (12:00pm, Pacific Time Zone). If you have questions for our developers/scientists it would be helpful to post them right here so the team can review them in advance. We will be having Justin Siegel joining us, so feel free to ask questions about aflatoxin. If we aren’t able to answer all your questions in the given time, we will attempt to get a blog post up soon with answers. Despite the fact that this chat will take place in #veteran, it will be accessible to all who want to join via the following link: http://chat.mibbit.com/?channel=%23veteran&server=irc.fold.it. Looking forward to chatting with you all!
Date: Thursday, March 8th, 2018
Time: 8-9pm GMT; 12-1:00pm Pacific Time Zone
Location: #veteran chat
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For anyone that missed it, here is the log!
http://fold.it/portal/node/2004878
How many of the ~75 foldit monomers you ordered genes for last summer ended up passing the wet lab tests? Did the successful ones have a variety of different shapes? Have you ordered genes for more foldit monomers? Has our rate of passing the Rosetta tests gone up further since last spring's blog posts?
As it stands, with the leaderboards being more or less static, I'm finding it a bit boring to grind. Any ideas to 'sweeten the deal' or 'shake things up'?
We already have a Soloist Hall of Fame at
http://fold.it/portal/players/s_ever
Why not have an Evolver Hall of Fame as well?
I'm curious if any of our designs looked interesting
and if any have been synthesized or even crystallized.
What features did the most interesting designs possess?
If there will be another round of aflatoxin puzzles,
how would you change the way our designs are scored
to better reflect which ones you found most interesting?
Finally, which aflatoxin orientation gave the best results?
If any of our designs have been synthesized,
do they seem to fold properly? Do they bind
aflatoxin better than previous designs? Do
they bind aflatoxin as well as you wanted?
Do any degrade aflatoxin?
That leaderboard is even more unmoving and static. I'm not talking about that at all!
Where I'm coming from: A lot of different competitive games have "seasons" where the ladder gets reset every season and people fight to the top cyclically. It's a more accurate reflection of a dynamic, churning game and the change in competitive strategies and players that come with it. With every season "bookended" as it were, developers and players can see what they want to change during and in between a season.
Another boon of the seasonal system is that it allows developers to incorporate ranked rewards for leaderboard/ladder positions in the greater season. What those rewards are depends on the game, however.
can we get back to basics please? the client is unreliable.
newbs have issues even accessing.
Look at the numbers - they speak for themselves.
Keep this up FC….what do u think u will end up with?
I'm not being 'funny' - just looking at the elephant in the room.
But golly - u have always ignored B4….look what u have now…congrats on that.
How is the numbering of the residues determined?
Would we find the same solution if the numbering was reversed ?
