Tuesday, April 7, 2020

Looking at TOP Foldit coronavirus solutions (Plus: lab testing)



In this special update we take a look at some of the best-scoring antiviral proteins designed so far by Foldit players. We then step into the laboratory to see what testing these molecules is actually going to look like.

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This video features Lexi Walls, Ph.D., who recently published important research on SARS-CoV-2 (the virus that causes COVID-19). Read Dr. Walls’ new open access paper here:
https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0...

This video features Foldit scientist Brian Koepnick, PhD. It was produced by Ian Haydon.

Note: Foldit is an interactive computer game and not a distributed computing project. If you would like to donate spare CPU cycles to science, please check out the Rosetta@Home project on BOINC at
https://boinc.bakerlab.org/

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