Online gamers strike blow in battle against AIDS

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laresMon 19/09/11 21:14

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"A bunch of gamers have untangled the structure of a key protein in the virus that causes AIDS, a mystery that has left scientists stumped for decades.

It took just three weeks for players of online game Foldit to predict an accurate model for the protein – a type of enzyme called a retroviral protease that has a critical role in how the HI virus grows and spreads.

The game Foldit was specially designed to help work out the structure of proteins. It combines computer intelligence with human spatial abilities by asking players to tweak and tug 3D models, a task that computers find hard to do."


"The gamers – most of whom have no background in biochemistry – generated models good enough for the researchers to refine and, within a few days, determine the enzyme's structure. In the research published yesterday in Nature Structural & Molecular Biology, lead authors biochemists Firas Khatib and Frank DiMaio gave gamers equal billing with the rest of their biochemist co-authors."

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deleted:ancoatsMon 19/09/11 21:34

 

Hurrah hurrah! Power to the gamers I say. Good news for all of us 'pozzies'! Any advance is warmly welcome against this dreadful virus and it goes to show that science alone isn't the only answer.

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