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).

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AI protein-folding algorithms solve structures faster than ever The ability to accurately predict protein structures from their amino-acid sequence would be a huge boon to life sciences and medicine.