The EteRNA game consists of puzzles, lab activities, player projects, strategy design, and community support. It crowdsources the computationally challenging tasks of RNA design and structure prediction. Puzzles consist of a target structure that players attempt to satisfy by the placement of different nucleotides. An additional degree of difficulty and/or realism is afforded by a variety of restrictions placed on player solutions.

By actually creating your solutions and experimentally testing how they fold, and then accessing the experimental results, the Lab exposes the gap between current computational models and reality. By advancing and testing hypotheses about when RNAs correctly fold in vitro, you are helping scientists understand the mysteries surrounding RNA folding and eventually paving the way towards new, complex, and medically useful biomolecules out of RNA.

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