Welcome to the Foldit Wiki
Foldit is an online game in which humans try to solve one of the hardest computational problems in biology: protein folding. You don't need to know anything about biology to play the game, although a little background will help. Most of the players of Foldit are not biologists. Read about The Science Behind Foldit.
Visit the official Foldit site for client downloads, puzzle and player information, the foldit Developer's blogand feedback.
Please read the Community Guidelines, Terms of Service
Updates
CASP 11 Results! see the blog post
CASP Includes results from CASP11 2014
Scientist and Developer Chats since 2009
New foldit video: Through the eyes of a scientist, Design solutions reviewed
Foldit Status
Latest updates and system status through the official Twitter and Facebook channels.
Download-Install-Troubleshoot includes Tracks, devprev and using multiple clients on Windows, Mac and Linux
IRC_Chat Foldit IRC (chat) Information
FAQs Frequently asked questions
Foldit Accessibility
Foldit Translations
Foldit Wiki in: German Italian Japanese Korean Russian Spanish French
New Players
The place to get started is the tutorial puzzles which show you the tools, do these before trying a science puzzle.
- Tutorial Puzzles (deutsch) (svenska)
- Foldit 101 - Useful information about Puzzle Types, the Cookbook and recipe basics.
- How to get started - With pictures from an actual puzzle
- Puzzle Results - screen shots of top scoring and interesting player solutions.
- Blackbelt Folding - Sessions 1,2, 3 & 4 denovo
- Electron Density - info and videos
Videos
- FolditatUW - foldit's official YouTube channel.
- P1 - Introduction to Protein Design (15m)
- P2 - Design of New Protein Functions (27m)
- Beta_Helix's Foldit video the basics explained (40m)
- Through the eyes of a scientist Design solutions reviewed (26m)
Featured articles
- Strategy - how to improve your score
- TheGame - tools, score details and Lua scripting
- Groups-Players - groups (teams), players and a bit of humour.
- The Research Room - advanced discussions and lots of external links
Contents ( View All Pages - Foldit Wikia Index )
We've asked the top players to post images of puzzle solutions. Read on to see the latest solutions! and previous solutions.
The Science
These pages describe the science of protein folding.
- Structure
- Primary structure
- Secondary Structure
- Hydrophilicity and hydrophobicity (blue out orange in)
- Protein Folding Theory
- CASP
- Rosetta@Home
- Biochemistry I
Helping out
This is a wiki about the Foldit game that anyone can edit. Before you do edit it, however, please take a look around and determine whether or not the article you'd like to write already exists. (If it does exist, feel free to make it better!)
To write a new article, just enter the article title in the box below.
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- Not sure where to start?
- Find out more about the wiki on the About page.
- If you are new to wikis, check out the tutorial.
- Check out Help:Starting this wiki if you're setting up the wiki.
- Adding content
- Every wiki has two list of articles that need help called "Stubs" and "Wanted Articles". Don't be shy, get in there.
- Uploading images is another really easy way to help out - see the Special:Upload page!
- You can find a list of useful templates on Category:Templates, some of which are documented on the templates project page.
- Talk and more...
- Check out the community portal to see what the community is working on, to give feedback or just to say hi.