foldit - social gamification - manu melwin joy
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FOLDITSocial Gamification
Prepared By Manu Melwin Joy
Assistant ProfessorSCMS School of Technology and Management
Kerala, India.Phone – 9744551114
Mail – [email protected]
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AIDS• By 2009, AIDs has already
killed 30 Million people, or
close to the equivalent of
the State of California. As of
2010, there are still 34
Million people that have
contracted HIV.
AIDS• For 15 years, many of the top
PhD Scientists in the world
were trying to decipher a
crystal structure for one of the
AIDS-causing viruses called the
Mason-Pfizer monkey virus (M-
PMV), but could not solve it.
FOLDIT• Luckily, the University of
Washington’s Center for
Game Science collaborated
with the Biochemistry
department and created
FoldIt, an online puzzle video
game about protein folding.
FOLDIT• Foldit utilizes a game-like
puzzle interface that allows
people from all over the
world to “play” and compete
in figuring out various
protein structures that fit a
researcher’s criteria.
FOLDIT• To everyone’s surprised, with over
240,000 “players” registering for
the game and competing viciously
against each other, a solution to
the structure of the M-PMV was
found in 10 days, creating a major
breakthrough in the AIDS
research field.
