【松岡正剛の知】12.foldit ゲーマー タンパク質分解酵素 - オデッサの階段
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Knowledge: Foldit, Gamers, Proteolytic Enzyme
Foldit: An online puzzle game
The objective of the game is to use various online tools
to predict the structure of a protein based on its amino acids.
In 2011, a Polish researcher gave the players a challenge.
The task was to analyze the structure of the proteolytic enzyme,
which could hold the key to curing ***.
Soon after, 41 teams, 600 gamers responded.
1.25 million analytical results were gathered quickly.
And one of them was a perfect model.
The puzzle that tormented the researchers for 10 years
was solved by the gamers in only 10 days
