Month: January 2009

Play Fold.it, the “Tetris-On-Steroids” game that solves protein folding

Posted by – January 29, 2009

“Protein folding” is what again?

It’s this: Foldit (curiously, at the web address: “fold.it”).  And it’s fun to play.  Addictive, really.  Check out the picture:

After I had been playing a while, my 8-year old niece came over to my laptop to see what the cute sound-effects were all about.  After a minute of watching, she said:  “Tell me the web site, I want to play too!”   Yeah, no kidding.

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