Algorithm discovery by protein folding game players

[RickJ]

I came across an interesting article about a novel use of games and and collaborative efforts. 

"Foldit is a multiplayer online game in which players collaborate and compete to create accurate protein structure models. For specific hard problems, Foldit player solutions can in some cases outperform state-of-the-art computational methods."

Click on the link following for the full article.   
Algorithm discovery by protein folding game players

[Ghost]

This reminds me a bit about AntMe- there was a similar trend for people sharing coding patterns and collaborating to create new strategies, and some of them were considered pretty amazing. I think it makes sense: Get a lot of people together to think about something, and there will eventually some sort of breakthrough. Brain beats computer quite often!