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Gaming for Medical Research
There are several "passive" type scientific programs that let users donate their spare cycles to academic pursuits, like SETI and Folding@Home. A new twist involves a similar program, but it is run as a game, where the players can help speed up the process by interactive play.
.."Almost 1,000 players have tested the system in recent weeks, playing informal challenges using proteins with known shapes. Starting this week, however, the developers will open the game to the public and offer proteins of unknown shapes. Also starting this week, Foldit gamers will face off against research groups around the world in a major protein-structure competition held every two years."
Direct to Fold.it On their page they are looking for help in making a Linux version, a cross OS binary (good luck with that). Probably better to just have the various "big" distros come up with their own, .deb. rpm, etc.