As a postdoc, Treuille founded the team that built the protein folding game Foldit, the first open online game that lets untrained amateurs speed up biochemical research by solving fun visual puzzles.

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Tech start-ups and apps are also following the gamification trend. FoldIt, for example, asks science students to play games that actually help solve scientific questions, such as how proteins fold ...

One of the most promising approaches to tackle this problem has been the development of Games-With-A-Purpose such as FoldIt or GalaxyZoo - attractive online games that label data as a byproduct of ...

I will also describe the contributions of the general public to these efforts through the distributed computing project Rosetta@Home and the online protein folding and design game Foldit. Finally, I ...