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Foldit

The protein-folding citizen science video game Foldit.

Our research group is interested in engaging the public to help us solve difficult scientific problems. We harness the collective brainpower of humans worldwide to tackle critical problems posed in computational biology. We have worked with and studied how citizen scientists of the online protein folding video game Foldit—with little or no prior biochemistry experience—uncovered knowledge that eluded scientists for years. Our group is interested in combining the power of humans and computers to tackle other difficult scientific problems.

http://www.cis.umassd.edu/~fkhatib
Firas Khatib
Firas has been the lead scientist of Foldit, a video game that has allowed hundreds of thousands of players to contribute to biochemical scientific research. The long term goal of this project is to utilize the combined power of humans and computers in order to build accurate models of disease-related proteins.
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