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Gamers Solve RNA Structures

Gamers Solve RNA Structures An online competition gives citizen scientists a chance to design RNA molecules to generate a target structure. Predicting RNA folding can be complex, even with the best in silico models. To help address this challenge, researchers created a game called EteRNA, which after being played by more than 37,000 citizen scientists online, helped generate a new algorithm that predicts RNA folding more accurately than previous algorithms. Details of the game and its findings were published yesterday (January 27) in  PNAS . “It's pretty amazing stuff,” Erik Winfree of the California Institute of Technology, who did not participate in the research, told  Science NOW . Every week, EteRNA participants designed sequences based on a target structure in the browser-based gaming interface. The top eight possibilities were chosen by the players’ vote and then synthesized and analyzed in the lab. Based on the reported folding outcomes of the...

Balls Blast

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App of the Day: Blast Ball On paper, Blast Ball sounds like it shouldn't work. It's a mish-mash of game concepts - a physics-based football game infused with arcade platforming and a high-score chasing spirit similar to Super Crate Box . But a few minutes spent playing Blast Ball is enough to alleviate any concerns about mixing together such eclectic genres. The game's sporting, arcade and action ingredients quickly blend into an enticing peanut butter and jam sandwich experience, which is to say that it shouldn't work, but it does. It's a lot of fun. Blast Ball's action takes place across three rather rudimentary maps, also reminiscent of Super Crate Box, with that game's original Mario Bros. influence still shining through in both level design and basic controls. Notching up points requires you trundle variously shaped balls into goals at either side of the screen, while an endless stream of enemies marches down from above. You kill them by ma...

Candy Crush Saga

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Gaming Gallary Candy Crush Saga Start playing Candy Crush Saga today – loved by millions of players around the world. We hope you’re having fun playing Candy Crush Saga! We update the game every week so don't forget to download the latest version to get all the sweet new features and levels! Candy crush saga Level 4100 most super hard not possible level full changed games move 30 but issues 17 limit I can't pass this level in 05 days ago please easy to play 4100 level full changed now today imdently thanks king team..