Foldit: Discovery Research Through Public Participation in Biochemistry

Figuring out which of the many, many possible protein structures is most stable is regarded as one of the hardest problems in biology today and current methods of investigation require a lot of money and time, even for computers. David Baker discusses Foldit's attempts to predict the structure of a protein by taking advantage of humans' puzzle-solving intuitions and having people play competitively to fold the best proteins.