title: Increasing public involvement in structural biology.
abstract: Public participation in scientific research can be a powerful supplement to more-traditional approaches. We discuss aspects of the public participation project Foldit that may help others interested in starting their own projects.
authors.affiliation: Department of Computer Science, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA. Electronic address: scooper@cs.washington.edu.
authors.forename: Seth
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Cooper
authors.forename: Firas
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Khatib
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Baker
mesh_terms: D003256:Community Participation; D003198:Computer Simulation; D006801:Humans; D008958:Models, Molecular; D008967:Molecular Biology; D014584:User-Computer Interface; D018910:Video Games