{"id":323,"date":"2011-10-12T14:50:45","date_gmt":"2011-10-12T21:50:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/?p=323"},"modified":"2011-12-27T13:10:00","modified_gmt":"2011-12-27T20:10:00","slug":"molecular-biologists-bring-gamers-into-the-%e2%80%98fold%e2%80%99","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/?p=323","title":{"rendered":"Molecular biologists bring gamers into the \u2018fold\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/science.howstuffworks.com\/environmental\/life\/cellular-microscopic\/video-game-cure-hiv.htm\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Foldit\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/2\/28\/Foldit_screenshot.png\" alt=\"The Foldit computer program\" width=\"160\" height=\"123\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image courtesy University of Washington<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Playing video games isn&#8217;t exactly rocket science but, thanks to a crowdsourcing computer game developed by University of Washington researchers, it can be molecular biology \u2013 and can offer hope to sufferers of tough-to-crack diseases such as Alzheimer\u2019s, cancer and HIV.<\/p>\n<p>Like John Henry versus the steam hammer or Garry Kasparov versus Deep Blue, <a href=\"http:\/\/fold.it\/portal\/\" target=\"_blank\">Foldit<\/a> players show that humans still have a thing or two to teach machines; unlike Henry, who died, or Kasparov, who lost in a rematch, protein-folding gamers still have an edge over the brute-force number crunching of supercomputers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/science.howstuffworks.com\/environmental\/life\/cellular-microscopic\/video-game-cure-hiv.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Has a Video Game Cured HIV?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Playing video games isn&#8217;t exactly rocket science but, thanks to a crowdsourcing computer game developed by University of Washington researchers, it can be molecular biology \u2013 and can offer hope to sufferers of tough-to-crack diseases such as Alzheimer\u2019s, cancer and HIV. Like John Henry versus the steam hammer or Garry Kasparov versus Deep Blue, Foldit &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/?p=323\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Molecular biologists bring gamers into the \u2018fold\u2019<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,76,82,20,67,3,13],"tags":[159,160,157,162,166,156,163,158,68,164,161,165,21],"class_list":["post-323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biochemistry","category-computing","category-health","category-internet","category-medicine","category-science","category-technology","tag-aids","tag-alzheimers-disease","tag-cancer","tag-crowdsourciing","tag-distributed-computing","tag-foldit","tag-gaming","tag-hiv","tag-pathology","tag-proteins","tag-puzzle","tag-retrovirus","tag-social-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=323"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":327,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323\/revisions\/327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}