Nature Video
Nature Video is planning a short video about Foldit to go live with the paper. They are looking for a Foldit gamer based in the London or Cambridge areas who would like to appear in this film, to help explain the game rules and dynamics. Please email a.rutherford@nature.com, including a 140 character tweet CV, and a picture. Gamers with no scientific background are welcome.
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Seth Cooper 127 4110 |
Thu, 07/08/2010 - 16:58 |
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Foldit wants YOU... to be on the cover of Nature.
Now that Foldit was accepted into Nature, we want to get on the cover! Dear players, we turn again to your collective help: click here to allow us to use your image in a photomosaic of a protein made out of Foldit player profiles.
Thank you all for making this possible.
( Posted by Adrien Treuille 127 2544 |
Thu, 07/01/2010 - 01:31 |
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CASP9 Refinement Experiment starting soon!
The CASP9 organizers have recently released the first Refinement targets:
http://predictioncenter.org/casp9/targetlist.cgi?view=refinement
According to the CASP9 timetable (http://predictioncenter.org/casp9/#timetable)
the "prediction season will end not later than July 31. Refinement experiment will end not later than August 20."
So, only 1 more month of prediction puzzles and then the only remaining CASP puzzles will be refinement ones: where the CASP organizers give us a prediction which is close to the native to refine.
(The starting models for the Refinement category are predictions that were submitted by a server or human group for a past target that has already expired).
Because CASP9 has already released Refinement puzzles (that are due in the next few weeks) we will try to space them out for you so that there is no more than 5 total CASP9 puzzles up at a time and no 2 puzzles expire on the same day.
Each refinement puzzle will be up for 5 days so that we can space them out.
( Posted by beta_helix 127 1431 |
Tue, 06/29/2010 - 22:43 |
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Nature paper decision
We're happy to report that our paper to Nature featuring the exciting feats of protein folding mastery by more than 75,000 has been accepted! We are not sure of the actual publication date, but once we do, you will be the first ones to know.
Congratulations to all of you for your work and as authors in the most respected science journal,
Zoran
zoran 127 4110 |
Wed, 06/23/2010 - 20:25 |
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Excellent foldit model from CASP8!
One of the first scientific publications to showcase a Foldit model turns out to be an assessor's paper in the last CASP trials! Rhiju Das who was coordinating Foldit efforts in CASP8 noticed that the paper ("Assessment of the protein-structure refinement category in CASP8") highlights a Foldit model. Fig. 6 in this paper illustrates how a protein's 3D model submitted in CASP8 could help solve the "crystallographic phase problem" for this protein's experimental data, an important bottleneck in structural biology. The depicted model was made in the very early days of Foldit (summer of 2008) by Pletsch as part of the Another Hour Another Point team. The Foldit toolset has expanded a lot since then, so we expect more great things to happen in CASP9!
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Mon, 06/07/2010 - 21:43 |
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