Imagine playing a video game that also makes scientific contributions to the field of computational biology. Firas Khatib, assistant professor in the Computer and Information Science Department at the ...

The people behind the protein folding game FoldIt let their users share protein folding recipes, which enabled them to quickly evolve a recipe that could outperform one that was being developed in a ...

The chains of amino acids that make up proteins are critical to every form of life. The complex ways that these proteins fold ...

The players of the online protein-folding game Foldit helped discover the structure of a protein important for HIV drug research—a problem that has eluded scientists for over a decade.

Scientists have found a new way to predict how proteins change their shape when they function, which is important for understanding how they work in living systems. While recent artificial ...

Protein folding is a critical process by which linear chains of amino acids adopt specific three‐dimensional conformations essential for biological function. In recent years, studies have increasingly ...

Just as a misshapen key can't open a lock, the proteins in our cells need to have the correct 3D shape to function properly. And defects in a protein's structure can cause diseases. Proteins are ...