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We're creating new proteins to address modern challenges in medicine, energy, and technology | Co-developers of @Foldit | @RosettaAtHome | @UWMedicine
Aug 10, 2022 11 tweets 6 min read
Our Institute was founded ten years ago with a small team and a big vision. Now both are larger than ever! Thank you to everyone who helped make this first decade so much fun. Here's to many more 🎉 Posters from the event:

Top7: The first protein invented on a computer with a novel amino acid sequence specifying a novel fold. Top7 was the first protein invented on a computer with a nov
Jun 5, 2019 8 tweets 5 min read
Today's an exciting day!

After many years of work, we're thrilled to report our latest advance in citizen science: nature.com/articles/s4158…

@Foldit @UWBiochemistry @uwcse @RutgersU @dartmouth @Northeastern @HHMINEWS #citizenscience #proteindesign @nature Online citizen science projects have largely harnessed human pattern-recognition skills rather than human creativity. We wanted to go much further.

We posed the challenge of de novo protein design in the online protein-folding game @Foldit.