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Gamers,1. AIDS protein, 0.

September 20, 2011 Posted by Sophy Bot under Gamification, Science news
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It took a decade of struggling with the structure of an enzyme produced by an AIDS-like virus before scientists threw the problem to the online gamers. It took the gamers only three weeks to solve it. Produced by the University of Washington in 2008, Foldit is an online video game where players compete to unfold chains of amino acids. When the enzyme from…

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