We'd like to get a list of the best Beginner Puzzles, so that we can cycle through those every few months to make sure new players have a useful Beginner Puzzle to start with.
That way we'll avoid reposting difficult ones like the Antifreeze Beginner Puzzle!
Please reply to this post with a list of your favorite past Beginner Puzzles. Thank you for your help!
Snow Flea will be posted on June 4th... just for you! :-)
We should indeed repost Scorpion Toxin now that disulfides are working in Foldit.
Thanks again for the feedback!
Well, the first ones I tryed were the beginner flu puzzles where you had 3 mutable segments you had to fit. Pretty easy, but has some basic components and is still a little chalenging. Fun!
Um, what happened to this?
Since the CASP organizers started the Refinement Targets way earlier than in past CASPs:
(In past years it has mostly been in July & August):
http://predictioncenter.org/casp9/targetlist.cgi?view=refinement
http://predictioncenter.org/casp8/targetlist.cgi?view=refinement
http://predictioncenter.org/casp7/targets/cgi/casp7-refine-view.cgi
we would have ended up with 5 non-beginner puzzles and I always try to keep that below 4 (for your sanity), but since we were forced to start posting 5 CASP puzzles at a time, we used the Refinement one as the beginner puzzle... and now we also have the "Tissue Regeneration Design Puzzle" (a bit harder than the "beginner flu puzzles" you had started with).
Hopefully with the new Categories (http://fold.it/portal/node/992875) we'll bring back basic beginner puzzles with the guide... and as promised: Snow Flea will be first!
Note that the term easy was relative:
http://fold.it/portal/node/988124 - Potato Multicystatin
http://fold.it/portal/node/988675 - Streptococcal Protein
http://fold.it/portal/node/989265 - Easy - headpiece of chicken villin
http://fold.it/portal/node/988896 - Easy Puzzle: Turkey Egg Lysozyme
http://fold.it/portal/node/988466 - Easy Puzzle: Killer Toxin
http://fold.it/portal/node/988224 - Easy Puzzle: Platypus Venom
I think "Easy Puzzle" was compared to the "Snow Flea" one :-)
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Seriously?! I've been waiting for that to come around again, like the other reposts. Tools, techniques, and skills change. You'll post Anthrax 3 times but not cute little old snow flea? I am saddened.
(Anthrax Lethal Factor to me seems ridiculously complicated)
I reinstalled in november and so lost all my early puzzles, like Scorpion Toxin. I would really like to send old puzzles to my client, like recipes. My beta client also does not have any puzzles that I did not open with the beta client while they were active.
Perhaps the rejected beginner puzzles could be posted with an intermediate label.