foldit in A Sentence

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    For more on Foldit see, Cooper et al.

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    Foldit Hand 2010.

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    For example, the final author of the first Foldit paper was“Foldit players”(Cooper et al. 2010).

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    For example, the final author of the first Foldit paper was“Foldit players”(Cooper et al. 2010).

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    Foldit turns the process of protein folding into a game that can be played by anyone.

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    Second, by some definitions of human computation(e.g., Ahn(2005)), Foldit should be considered a human computation project.

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    Second, by some definitions of human computation(e.g., Von Ahn(2005)), Foldit should be considered a human computation project.

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    Foldit's elegant design enables players with little formal knowledge of biochemistry to compete with the best algorithms designed by experts.

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    According to the definition proposed in Ahn(2005) Foldit- which I described in the section on open calls- could be considered a human computation project.

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    In fact, in a head-to-head competition between Foldit players and state-of-the-art algorithms, the players created better solutions for 5 out of 10 proteins(Cooper et al. 2010).

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    However, I choose to categorize Foldit as an open call because it requires specialized skills and it takes the best solution contributed, rather than using a split-apply-combine strategy.

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    In fact, in a head-to-head competition to predict the structure of 10 specific proteins, Foldit players were able to beat state-of-the-art protein folding algorithms five times(Cooper et al. 2010).

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