Eterna

1 PROJECT

Url:http://eterna.cmu.edu/web/
Start date:
End date: Still open

2 TEAM

Official team page:
Leader:

3 PROJECT DEFINITION

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3.1 Subject

Natural sciences > (biology/medicine/neuroscience)

3.2 Description

EteRNA is a browser based game, developed by scientists at Carnegie Mellon University and Stanford University, that engages users to solve puzzles related to the folding of RNA molecules.The project is funded by the National Science Foundation. Similar to Foldit—created by some of the same researchers that developed EteRNA—the puzzles take advantage of human problem-solving capabilities to solve puzzles that are computationally laborious for current computer models.

3.3 Purpose.

The fundamental purpose of Eterna is to provide a better understanding of RNA. EteRNA researchers hope to determine a "complete and repeatable set of rules to allow the synthesis of RNAs that consistently fold in expected shapes.[2]

3.4 Research question.

EteRNA project leaders hope that determining these basic principles that may facilitate the design of RNA-based nanomachines and switches.

4 ABOUT PARTICIPANT TASKS

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Grey typology	Participation typology	Contribution type:
Computing: NO Thinking: Somewhat Sensing: NO Gaming: YES	Crowdsourcing ☐ Distributed intelligence ☐ Participatory science ☐ Extreme citizen science ☐ Science outreach ☐	Data collection ☐ Data analysis ☐ Data interpretation ☐--------
Gaming
Genre:	Gaming elements:
Interface
Data type to manipulate: other	interface enjoyment: Interface usability:	Member profiles::N/A Member profile elements:

5 ABOUT GUIDANCE AND FEEDBACK

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Guidance	Feedback on
Tutorial and documentation: SOMEWHAT Training sequence: SOMEWHAT Peer to peer guidance: SOMEWHAT	individual performance: Somewhat collective performance: Somewhat research progress: Somewhat

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6 COMMUNITY

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Communication: chat, wiki Social Network: N/A	Main news site: Frequency of project news updates: N/A Type of events: Frequency of events :
Community description
Community size (volounteers based): Role: Interaction form: Has official community manager(s): N/A Has team work N/A

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7 OTHER PROJECT INFORMATION

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Eterna.jpg Yes [[has completion level::Low]

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Natural sciences biology/medicine/neuroscience The fundamental purpose of Eterna is to provide a better understanding of RNA. EteRNA researchers hope to determine a "complete and repeatable set of rules to allow the synthesis of RNAs that consistently fold in expected shapes.[3] EteRNA project leaders hope that determining these basic principles that may facilitate the design of RNA-based nanomachines and switches.

Eterna

other, other: Arn 2D representation Thinking: somewhat Computing: no Sensing: no Gaming: yes

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

Treuille On EterRNA - A Game Played By Humans, Scored By Nature. Byron Spice (2011)

http://www.cmu.edu/piper/piper/2011/february/qa_treuille.html

Interview of Adrian Treuille