Lab Report #32: Good Rotations from Foldit

Collaborators are now testing VHL ligand designs in the lab, and new software features put the focus on rotatable bonds to help us create more effective molecules. 0:00 – intro 0:20 – Testing small molecule designs 3:24 – Puzzle Updates 4:34 – Design of the Month 8:58 – outro You don't have to be a scientist to do science. Download and play Foldit and you can help researchers discover new drugs for cancer, antivirals, and more. The most promising solutions are being manufactured and tested at the University of Washington Institute for Protein Design in Seattle. Foldit is FREE and not-for-profit: https://fold.it/ This video features Foldit scientists Brian Koepnick, PhD. It was produced by Ian Haydon. Note: Foldit is an interactive computer game and not a distributed computing project. If you would like to donate spare CPU cycles to science, please check out the Rosetta@Home project on BOINC at https://boinc.bakerlab.org/

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