Rosetta Game

[ronbo54]

From David Baker -
"The Rosetta game is about to go public! beat the crowds and start working your way up the world rankings, while honing skills you can soon put to use in CASP and in designing new proteins to help people worldwide.

Download the game at

http://fold.it/boinc

Have fun!"

I haven't had a chance to try it yet, but thought someone else might like it.

[alpha]

The application doesn't work for me. Just brings up a plain white filled window with a small black filled box in the middle (presumably a login box or something).

I have crappy onboard video which probably doesn't help.

[paleseptember]

No idea where to post this, so I'll throw it in here for the moment.

The Rosetta@Home people have moved the Fold It! programme/game from closed Beta to open Beta.

Link: http://fold.it/

News article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases...0508122520.htm

Instead of your computer trying all permutations to fold an amino acid sequence into a protein structure, your brain and intuition gets to have an intelligent attempt. It looks like you get Rosetta credit for manual folding.

*shrug* Worth a look anyhow. Ronbo54, alpha (names recognised), and tongz (an alias, maybe) are already on the Free-DC team

[alpha]

Ronbo did already post here about it, but I suppose it is useful here too anyhow.

Still can't get it to work for me on the one computer I've tried. The latest version gets further but I still get half-blank dialogue boxes so I can't continue past the login box.

[paleseptember]

D'oh! I searched the forums, but didn't find that thread. :\

The program seems to work for me...

[jasong]

Apparently, you have to be a slave to one of the Steves to play. I´m not willing to fight with Wine, so I guess I won´t be trying it.

Edit: nm, Wine handles it perfectly, except for a complaint about a sound driver.

[paleseptember]

Jasong, took me a minute to work out "slaves to Steves" Very amusing.

The program is definitely not stable. It's trying to update for me, but flakes on the install of the update. Definitely beta quality at the moment.

I can't imagine linux support will be far away.

[Angus]

It looks like some mysterious benefactor (or two) has decided to get active in this project (game?). The Free-DC group (team) is now up to 23 place. Group Page

I tried this a few months back, and dropped it again over the goofy points awarding they were doing - inflating personal "solo" points with those of the group play. I don't even recall seeing a team at that time, but evidently ronbo54 created one.

Maybe I'll try again and see if it's improved.