Sunday, March 14, 2010

Interesting Biochemistry Website Link and Brief Description

Below is a link to a great biochemistry website that allows you to "play" with proteins. The game is to fold, bend, and wiggle the amino acid ribbons into the correct three dimensional shape. The player has to take into account opposite charges attracting each other, angles of rotation, and hydrophobic and hydrophilic parts of the amino acid molecules. The closer you can get to the actual shape of the protein the more points you receive.
The game can be downloaded to your computer and you can play with the other 100,000 people that have downloaded the game. The original idea was to get more than just scientist into putting proteins in their correct shapes. People can work with different complex proteins from their homes and their structure ideas can be seen by the creators of the game.
The website where you can download this game is: http://fold.it/portal/
I strongly suggest you check out this game. It has a great theory behind it and is worth taking some time out and playing around with.

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