The Archivist

2 April

2 April · 19:19 UTC

If you're at home looking for something to do, play this game designed by one of the world's top labs, to help design a drug against Covid-19. It may lead to a drug within a month.This is serious science, crowdsourcing this stuff in the past has led to solutions in days that supercomputers had been unable to come up with in months. I once helped a researcher designing a game to solve impossibly complex dynamics problems in minutes, it floored me. Some context here: https://www.smh.com.au/national/this-game-helps-scientists-design-covid-drugs-they-want-you-to-play-20200330-p54fby.html https://fold.it/

Nick Dee shared a link.
External context: https://fold.it/