Universe Sandbox
General Category => Astronomy & Science => Topic started by: Bla on February 12, 2012, 11:28:25 AM
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So I found this game FoldIt... You earn a score while folding proteins based on compactness, while avoiding clashes between atoms and having hydrophobic (orange) sidechains buried and hydrophilics (blue) exposed.
Link: http://fold.it/portal/ (http://fold.it/portal/)
I registered as BlaBla44.
You can download the game here:
http://fold.it/portal/node/988864 (http://fold.it/portal/node/988864)
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Would this happen to be anything like Folding@Home?
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Would this happen to be anything like Folding@Home?
That's the program you can run through Boinc, isn't it? There you just watch proteins being folded directly by your computer (if you don't run it in the background). Here you can fold them yourself and use tools for folding.
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I've tried to do it but I had no idea how it worked or how I should fold them
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try the tutorial puzzles, the show you clearly how each tool works and what it does :)
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I found a similar thing. Help research in quantum mechanics and quantum computers by playing Quantum Moves
https://www.scienceathome.org/games/quantum-moves/game
"Quantum Moves is based on an idea of storing single atoms in a very specific trap, where each atom sits in a well like an egg in an egg tray. With such a trap, physicists can store around 300 atoms in a neat configuration. Just imagine being able to use each of these atoms as a qubit! This is, in fact, possible, and with such a configuration we are getting tantalisingly close to having a quantum computer with the superpowers everyone is fussing over.
The missing piece is doing operations and calculations on this large qubit string. Operations are done by picking up individual atoms, moving them around the egg tray trap and merging them with other atoms. This has to be done with great care to preserve the state of the atom (whether it's 'zero, 'one' or a superposition of both) - but also fast, to avoid outside noise and keep calculations efficient.
Sound familiar? This is exactly the challenge posed in the Quantum Moves game! Players move and merge atoms with the goal of ending up in very specific final shapes (which are actually just different states). Our engines take this information and translate it to the way a laser beam is used to pick up and move around an atom in the lab. Different challenges in Quantum Moves correspond to different operations on the qubit strings. Once we have a whole toolbox of operations, we are ready to turn on the 300-qubit quantum computer and start addressing the hugely important and impactful task of working on problems that have been "impossible" to solve for the best present-day supercomputers."
https://www.scienceathome.org/games/quantum-moves/scientific-goal