Thomas Lienhard at Haverhill High

http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2011/11/gamers-create-recipes-for-protein-folding-algorithms.ars (copy Link) Chemically, the proteins that run most of a cell's functions are little more than a string of amino acids. Their ability to perform structural and catalytic functions is primarily dependent upon the fact that, when in solution, that string adopts a complex, three-dimensional shape. Understanding how that three-dimensional structure forms has been a serious challenge; even if you know the order of the amino acids in the string, it's generally been impossible to predict how they'll fold up into the final product. But now, gamers are giving scientists some insight into the algorithms that predict protein structures.... READ ON Gamers solved in 10 weeks what had taken scientists 10 years to try and solve...

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Does Google Know Too Much About Me?... Interesting opinion artitcle from CNN
posted on February 9, 2012

SOPA And PIPA Dead??
posted on February 3, 2012

Digital Learning Day is today!!!
posted on February 1, 2012

Fold It- Gamers solve AIDS virus protein puzzle
posted on November 23, 2011