Foldit, the company that has made protein folding mastery into a game used by more than 75,000 people, has had an article accepted in Nature and they want all of their participants to be with them on the cover. Yes, all 75,000. Sounds like Science 2.0 to me. It will look something like this:
Why is this cool? Foldit is a company that is squarely in the heart of the participation aspects of Science 2.0. Making protein structure prediction and protein design into a fun game means the whole world can help, and still have a good time doing it.
Obviously the power of crowds is known, but it isn't well understood yet, and efforts like Foldit can help not only solve some puzzles now, but also help create future AI that can do better jobs with protein prediction.
