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"Seth Cooper is the lead designer of Foldit, and one of the original creators of the game. He is currently the creative director for the Center for Game Science at the University of Washington. In a recent Science Observer, American Scientist associate editor Katie Burke discussed Foldit and other citizen science games. The following is an extended version of her conversation with Cooper"

via FoldIt and video-game interface, players engage in protein engineering

The protein folding game Foldit shows that games are an effective way to recruit, engage and organize ordinary citizens to help solve difficult scientific problems. Modern science is filled with challenges of massive scale.

In a new book, Howard Rheingold describes crowdsourcing efforts such as FoldIt involving gamers as "supercollaborators"

Fit2Cure, using a crowdsourcing model similar to projects like FoldIT, aims at cures for less-researched diseases affecting impoverished regions

All Things Considered interview with scientists and makers of FoldIt used to solve protein structure problem