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504: Flu Design Puzzle 4: Unfrozen!

Closed since about 14 years ago

Intermediate Intermediate Overall Overall Design Design

Summary

Created: January 17, 2012
Expires: January 25, 2012 at 14:00 UTC
Max points: 100

Description

We are finally giving you more freedom with the Flu Puzzles, by letting you modify the structure of the small protein that binds to the flu virus (you can still mutate the sidechains). The Flu Virus is still frozen. If you are new to Foldit, make sure you have completed Intro Puzzle 5-2, & 7-1 through 7-4. See the puzzle comments for more info about these Flu Puzzles.

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31. NETD 1 pt. 8,601
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36. BOINC@Poland 1 pt. 8,596
37. Czech National Team 1 pt. 8,593
38. Valencia 1 pt. 8,591
39. Deleted group pts. 8,591
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16. steveB Lv 1 92 pts. 8,694
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20. Deleted player pts. 8,692

Comments

beta_helix Staff Lv 1

January 17, 2012

In order to be successful on this Design Puzzle you should complete Intro Puzzle 5-2 "Movin' Along" so you can master the Move Tool.
Obviously you will also need to complete the Design Intro Puzzles.
(You can find help on all the Intro Levels here: http://foldit.wikia.com/wiki/Tutorial_Puzzles)

Read the blog for more info about these Flu puzzles:
http://fold.it/portal/node/989769
&
http://fold.it/portal/node/990312

and if you are new to Foldit, here are detailed instructions to get you started:
http://fold.it/portal/node/988864