# Cooper 2010: Predicting protein structures with a multiplayer online game

> Seth Cooper, Firas Khatib, Adrien Treuille et al., 2010. 1 records on Mysteries Department cite it. The inquiry-framework report cites it as an example…

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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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