Foldit in the News and Foldit Presentations

[beta_helix]

These 2 scientific presentations were from the Bioinformatics outside the lab: How to mobilize online citizen scientists to accelerate research session at the virtual ISMB conference in July 2020: https://www.iscb.org/ismb2020-program/special-sessions#sst02

Seth Cooper, "Foldit and the origin of scientific discovery games in molecular biology":

Firas Khatib (beta_helix), "Gamers and experimentalists collaborate on COVID-19":

BONUS: This article, "Citizen science is booming during the pandemic". just came out this week and mentions Foldit.
Be sure to check it out–thank you to all of our players who have contributed so much to science, particularly during this time!

[Susume]

My favorite quotes from beta_helix:

'I tried hanging out at the back of crystallography conferences, holding a "We'll fit your densities for free!!" sign, but all I got were very strange looks.'

'After we published [the Foldit electron density paper], I just sat by the phone, waiting for all the experimentalists to call the Foldit Hotline, asking for help with solving their structures. [** crickets **]'