Publicized in Plugged In, a division of games.yahoo.com, (original paper in Nature Structural & Molecular Biology [ Crystal structure of a monomeric retroviral protease solved by protein folding game players by F. Khatib et al., 18 Sep. 2011 doi:10.1038/nsmb.2119 ]), the work is noteworthy for collaboration on several levels: biochemists (at the University of Washington) reaching outside not only their academic discipline (not uncommon) but outside scholarship to the gamer community; and the inherently cooperative nature of (most) gaming.
