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[anthonyk]

Originally Posted by goof2

Don't forget, in your analogy nobody would know what "winning" Tetris actually looks like.

Where the article breaks down for me is that nobody has been able to successfully model this protein before, but these gamers using this program were able to do so. The gap the article fails to bridge for me is how this model is determined to be accurate.

From the original study, it sounds like researchers can crystallize the protein, so they at least know what the crystal structure looks like. They just don't know what individual protein structure it would take to get that crystal structure.

The gamers apparently came up with a few different protein structures that would crystallize up in the same way as the real one.

But I ain't a biochemist, so take all that with a crystal of salt.