title: Folding research recruits unconventional help.
abstract: A denatured protein chain can find its well-ordered three-dimensional structure, the native state, in under a second, using only the information contained in the sequence. For researchers, however, the prediction of structures from sequences is a hard problem, so they are now recruiting all the help they can get, including idle computers and game consoles, game players, and little hints from evolution. Michael Gross reports.
authors.forename: Michael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Gross
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D003198:Computer Simulation; D019143:Evolution, Molecular; D005717:Games, Experimental; D006801:Humans; D008956:Models, Chemical; D017510:Protein Folding; D017434:Protein Structure, Tertiary