New Alignment Tool videos & folding meeting notes
Auntdeen has posted a detailed report from the first Foldit Dev Meeting where we invited 2 players to Skype in: http://fold.it/portal/node/992653
One of the topics brought up at that meeting was the need for players who understand how to use the new Alignment Tool to create a tutorial video for everyone else.
Until then, jflat and ceiben have added 2 new Alignment Tool videos to the Foldit youtube page:
https://www.youtube.com/user/UWfoldit
Lastly, check out the blog to hear about Foldit's participation in the CASP10 WeFold Project.
(Tue, 05/15/2012 - 05:57 | 2 comments)Puzzle 554 extended by 2 days
As stated in the Puzzle Description for 554: Quest to the Native CASP ROLL Target R0007, due to the lack of a new CASP 10 puzzle, we have extended Puzzle 554 by two days.
This had been also been mentioned in the "Puzzle Schedule" Forum post: http://fold.it/portal/node/991972
This will be the final deadline for 554.
(Sat, 05/12/2012 - 05:31 | 2 comments)Happy 4th Birthday Foldit!
It was four years ago this week that Foldit was launched publicly.
On May 8th, 2008 Foldit was announced on Slashdot even though we had planned to go public on May 9th!
So congratulations everyone and thanks for all your hard work!
(Wed, 05/09/2012 - 23:29 | 13 comments)Update!
Hey everyone!
We're releasing an update to main with the following changes:
Bug Fixes
- Threading to an alignment should now always work
- Using the arrow keys to shift alignments should now work in the selection interface
- The tutorials have been adjusted to account for the pi-helix score fix
We realize there are some unaddressed issues in this update, but we need to get it up anyways as the tutorial issues are high priority. We'll work on getting fixes for the other issues and releasing an update for those soon!
(Sun, 05/06/2012 - 18:14 | 2 comments)Chat logs & Sequence Logo for CASP Puzzle posted
The transcripts from Monday's Scientist Chat with David Baker & EvdH, as well as yesterday's Developer Chat with Seth & Zoran have been posted here:
http://fold.it/portal/chats
The secondary structure predictions from the SAM-T08 server have been posted for Puzzle 552: CASP10 Target T0644 in the puzzle comments.
You'll notice that the first 20 residues (that are unaligned to the template) are highly predicted to be helical so trying to make a helix there would be a good start.
Lastly, the second CASP target was cancelled by the Organizers:
http://tinyurl.com/CASP10-list
