Thursday, March 4, 2010

Fold.it

Today I found an interesting site called Foldit, where you can download a program that lets you try folding a protein graphically. It differs from sites like Folding@home, which just draw on your computer's spare processor cycles, in that it actually hopes to use human intuition to help solve the protein folding problem, and compare it to the performance of computer algorithms on the same task. I downloaded it, and wanted to give my opinion on it.