Welcome Fellow Nature Authors
Aug 9, 2010
In the About section of this blog, we mention that “Reading this blog won’t guarantee your next paper will be in Nature”. We were wrong, it did!
You may recall us talking about Foldit a year ago. If you ended up giving it a try then you can add a(nother) Nature paper to your CV.
Foldit was recognized in the latest edition of Nature in the paper entitled, Predicting protein structures with a multiplayer online game.
The paper reminds us that human brains can still compete algorithms and we should enjoy it while it lasts. In all seriousness, the paper is worth a read and a tip of the hat to all the hard work that resulted in this publication.
Oh and I call author position 10 out of the ~57,000 – just as a heads up.
Posted by Sean |
Categories: Scientific Publication and Presentation | Tagged: Foldit, Humor, Macromolecular Crystallography, Nature, Scientific Publication and Presentation |
Morten G
August 11th, 2010 at 10:27 PM #
I played around with Foldit a bit but I sucked despite being a crystallographer. Go figure.
Sean
August 15th, 2010 at 6:47 PM #
I had to stop because deep down I felt like was assisting in my future unemployment