Foldit
A puzzle game where the puzzles are real protein-folding problems. Players have co-authored papers in Nature by beating the algorithms.
- Natural Sciences
- Medicine & Health
- Who can enter
- Anyone worldwide. Free; no biology background needed to start
- What it costs
- A research project run out of the University of Washington. Nothing is sold.
- When it closes
- We could not confirm this year's date against the organiser's own page, so we are not showing a countdown for it. Last published: Open all year: play the puzzles, free.
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