March 5, 2014   Cooper, S., Khatib F., & Baker D. (2013).  Increasing public involvement in structural biology. Structure  21(9), 1482-4.

Foldit is 5 years old.  This publication entitled “Increasing public involvement in structural biology” chronicles the power of engaging the citizen science community on behalf of the computational challenge of protein folding.  For a compelling videos on this topic, go to this link, and this link.  Read more about Foldit and Rosetta@home here.

 

Foldit and the Citizen Scientist