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2039: Revisiting Puzzle 79: Pheremone

Closed since over 4 years ago

Novice Overall Prediction

Summary

Created
September 02, 2021
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Max points
100
Description

This is a throwback puzzle to the early days of Foldit. This pheromone protein is secreted by the protist E. raikovi to initiate conjugation, the exchange of genetic material between two cells. This protein contains ten cysteine residues that oxidize to form five disulfide bonds. We are revisiting old Foldit puzzles so we can see how useful the recent additions to the game have been.



Sequence:


GECEQCFSDGGDCTTCFNNGTGPCANCLAGYPAGCSNSDCTAFLSQCYGGC

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Comments

BootsMcGraw Lv 1

…I am doing this puzzle the old-fashioned way: without using bands. It seems that the crashes only happen when bands are in place. They don't even need to be engaged to cause the crash.

I filed a feedback, with a debug file output attached.