The system seems simple, but the players have used it to outperform Rosetta, the state-of-the-art programme for solving protein structures (and the one that Foldit itself spawned from).

Algorithm: A well-defined sequence of steps designed to solve a particular computational problem. ... In Codeless Data Structures and Algorithms, pp. 3–17. Apress (2020).

Solving life's great mysteries often requires detective work, using observed outcomes to determine their cause. For instance, nuclear physicists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Thomas Jefferson ...