On-line Gamers Succeed Where Scientists Fail, Opening Door to New AIDS Drug Design

On-line Gamers Succeed Where Scientists Fail, Opening Door to New AIDS Drug Design
Mon, 19 Sep 2011 13:31:00 -0500

Online gamers have solved the structure of a retrovirus enzyme whose configuration had stymied scientists.

The players were adept at a computer game, Foldit, that allows players to collaborate and compete in predicting the structure of protein molecules.

After scientists repeatedly failed to piece together the structure of a protein-cutting enzyme from an AIDS-like virus, they called in the Foldit players.

The scientists challenged the gamers to produce an accurate model of ...

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