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Predicting protein structures with a multiplayer online game
Seth Cooper, Firas Khatib, Adrien Treuille et al., 2010. Nature.
Reports on Foldit, an online game in which players fold proteins, and shows that their strategies matched or beat automated methods on some structure-prediction problems.
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Cooper, S., Khatib, F., Treuille, A., Barbero, J., Lee, J., Beenen, M., Leaver-Fay, A., Baker, D., Popović, Z., & players, F. (2010). Predicting protein structures with a multiplayer online game. Nature. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature09304
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title = {Predicting protein structures with a multiplayer online game},
journal = {Nature},
year = {2010},
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Cooper, Seth et al.. “Predicting protein structures with a multiplayer online game.” Nature (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/nature09304.