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IDENTIFICATION

Participant's homepage

* Infrastructure:
* Developed with: Citizen science custom software

Start date : 2008/05/08

* Beta start date : 2008/12/12
* End date : Still open.

Subject

* Natural sciences > Biochemistry (biology/medicine/neuroscience)

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⇳ Description Fold It is a computer game enabling volonteers to contribute to biochemistry research by resolving proteins puzzles. The game is part of an experimental research project, and is developed by the University of Washington's Center for Game Science in collaboration with the UW Department of Biochemistry. ➠ Purpose Identify the structural configuration of natural proteins to study and understand proteins better. ? Research question "As described above, knowing the structure of a protein is key to understanding how it works and to targeting it with drugs. A small protein can consist of 100 amino acids, [[Has research question::while some human proteins can be huge (1000 amino acids). The number of different ways even a small protein can fold is astronomical because there are so many degrees of freedom." from official project website]]

TEAM

MAIN TEAM LOCATION

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University of Washington

Project team page http://fold.it/portal/info/credits Leader: David Baker Institution: University of Washington's Center for Game Science Partner institutions: UW Department of Biochemistry, UW Center for Game Science, UW Department of Computer Science and Engineering Contact: Not explicitely listed http://fold.it/portal/feedback or https://twitter.com/foldit

USER TASKS

CONTRIBUTION TYPE: data analysis
PARTICIPATION TYPOLOGY: distributed intelligence

GAMING GENRE Puzzle
GAMING ELEMENTS: NONE

COMPUTING

THINKING

SENSING

GAMING

◉ Tasks description

⤯ Interaction with objects

▣ Interface

* Data type to manipulate: 3D manipulation

* interface enjoyment: somewhat cool/attractive

* Interface usability:

GUIDANCE

GUIDANCE

* Tutorial: ✓
* Peer to peer guidance: ✓
* Training sequence: Somewhat

FEEDBACK ON

* Individual performance: ✓
* Collective performance: ✓
* Research progress: Somewhat

❂ Feedback and guidance description

COMMUNITY

COMMUNITY TOOLS

* Communication: website, blog, forum, wiki, other

* Social Network: Twitter, Facebook
* Member profiles:: minimal
* Member profile elements: photo, personal interests, badges, activity metrics, other

NEWS & EVENTS

* Main news site: http://fold.it/portal/blog
* Frequency of project news updates: weekly
* Type of events: other
* Frequency of events : 5

⏣ Community description

* Community size (volounteers based) 6398
* Role:
* Interaction form: Blog Comments and Twitter
* Has official community manager(s): maybe
* Has team work yes
* Other: Forum fairly active.
* Community led additions:

Other information

#### 1 PROJECT[edit source]

Url:http://fold.it/portal/
Start date: 2008/05/08
End date: Still open

#### 2 TEAM[edit source]

Official team page:http://fold.it/portal/info/credits
Leader: David Baker
Institution: University of Washington's Center for Game Science
Partner institutions: UW Department of Biochemistry, UW Center for Game Science, UW Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Contact: http://fold.it/portal/feedback or https://twitter.com/foldit
Main location: University of Washington

## 3 PROJECT DEFINITION[edit source]

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### 3.1 Subject[edit source]

Natural sciences > Biochemistry (biology/medicine/neuroscience)

### 3.2 Description[edit source]

Fold It is a computer game enabling volonteers to contribute to biochemistry research by resolving proteins puzzles. The game is part of an experimental research project, and is developed by the University of Washington's Center for Game Science in collaboration with the UW Department of Biochemistry.

### 3.3 Purpose.[edit source]

Identify the structural configuration of natural proteins to study and understand proteins better.

### 3.4 Research question.[edit source]

"As described above, knowing the structure of a protein is key to understanding how it works and to targeting it with drugs. A small protein can consist of 100 amino acids, while some human proteins can be huge (1000 amino acids). The number of different ways even a small protein can fold is astronomical because there are so many degrees of freedom." from official project website

## 4 ABOUT PARTICIPANT TASKS[edit source]

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### 4.1 .[edit source]

### 4.2 .[edit source]

Grey typology | Participation typology | Contribution type:

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Computing: | NO | Thinking: | NO
Sensing: | NO | Gaming: | YES
| Crowdsourcing | ☐ | Distributed intelligence | ☑

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Participatory science | ☐ | Extreme citizen science | ☐
Science outreach | ☐ | |
| Data collection | ☐

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Data analysis | ☑
Data interpretation | ☐\

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Gaming
Genre: puzzle | Gaming elements: achievements, score boards, challenges
Interface
Data type to manipulate: 3D manipulation | interface enjoyment: somewhat cool/attractive
Interface usability: | Member profiles::minimal
Member profile elements: photo, personal interests, badges, activity metrics, other

## 5 ABOUT GUIDANCE AND FEEDBACK[edit source]

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Guidance | Feedback on

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| Tutorial and documentation: | YES

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Training sequence: | SOMEWHAT
Peer to peer guidance: | YES
| individual performance: | YES

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collective performance: | YES
research progress: | Somewhat

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## 6 COMMUNITY[edit source]

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Tools | News & Events

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Communication: website, blog, forum, wiki, other
Social Network: Twitter, Facebook

Main news site: http://fold.it/portal/blog
Frequency of project news updates: weekly
Type of events: other
Frequency of events : 5

Community description

Community size (volounteers based): 6398
Role: Interaction form:Blog Comments and Twitter
Has official community manager(s): maybe
Has team work yes

Other information about community: Forum fairly active.
Community led additions:

## 7 OTHER PROJECT INFORMATION[edit source]

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Foldit main.png Yes [[has completion level::Medium]

http://fold.it/portal/info/credits Not explicitely listed University of Washington http://fold.it/portal/feedback or https://twitter.com/foldit 2008/12/12 Yes Biochemistry Natural sciences biology/medicine/neuroscience Identify the structural configuration of natural proteins to study and understand proteins better. "As described above, knowing the structure of a protein is key to understanding how it works and to targeting it with drugs. A small protein can consist of 100 amino acids, [[Has research question::while some human proteins can be huge (1000 amino acids). The number of different ways even a small protein can fold is astronomical because there are so many degrees of freedom." from official project website]] International Fold It

data analysis

distributed intelligence 3D manipulation, other: Thinking: no Computing: no Sensing: no Gaming: yes achievements, score boards, challenges puzzle

somewhat cool/attractive

yes yes strong yes yes somewhat

minimal photo, personal interests, badges, activity metrics, other maybe website, blog, forum, wiki, other Twitter, Facebook other 5 http://fold.it/portal/blog 6398 weekly Forum fairly active.

Blog Comments and Twitter yes Twitter and mentions in popular science articles

Medium

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