The model was opened up to a group of online gamers, who competed to model the protein, with all the associated scores, points, and rankings of a game.

FORBES: Practical Implications

Then, if you found any member of such a group of domains in a protein, you would be able to slot that shape into the overall model of what the protein looked like.

ECONOMIST: Structural genomics

There's another little problem with the Omega Protein business model: It has enemies in the environmental sector.

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Scientists had attempted to model a 3D structure of a protein associated with the HIV virus for 15 years and failed.

FORBES: Practical Implications

It would probably not be a bad thing if we ate less meat, if the ratio of animal protein to vegetables changed along the lines of the Chinese model.

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But it has inspired other schemes, including a Stanford University study of how protein chains fold in on themselves and a global weather-forecasting model at the Rutherford Appleton Lab in Britain.

FORBES: Sharing Power

The goal is either to design an entirely new protein, or to predict a certain structure, so that once an online model is generated, scientists and biotech companies take over.

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The model also suggested that an anti-inflammatory drug called celecoxib should bind with CDH11, a protein which plays an important role in the development of both rheumatoid arthritis and metastatic breast cancer.

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