In July 2020, bkoep described a forthcoming paper on "energy landscape optimization," which used foldit player designs as one of its study datasets and included "Foldit Players" in the author list. The paper was available at that time as a preprint. The final version of the paper has recently been published in PNAS: https://www.pnas.org/content/118/11/e2017228118.abstract?etoc

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