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I've been playing EteRNA lately. It's a browser-based puzzle game where you try to design RNA molecules to match certain patterns, with different limitations in different puzzles. I started a few weeks ago when a friend mentioned the game (thank you!) and really enjoy it.
My brain has been a bit dicey lately - it's harder to think in academic straight lines when my brain is fried but visual type thinking seems to be much less impaired, so my ability to do programming is messed up but I'm still good at games!!
Anyway, one of my EteRNA designs has been selected in their newbie puzzle to actually get synthesised!!
That means a tiny little bit of RNA that I designed is going to be made in a lab so that we can see how it folds itself up, and then we can compare that to how we thought it would fold itself up... and thus, hopefully, advance science a bit!
Also, it's fun.
My brain has been a bit dicey lately - it's harder to think in academic straight lines when my brain is fried but visual type thinking seems to be much less impaired, so my ability to do programming is messed up but I'm still good at games!!
Anyway, one of my EteRNA designs has been selected in their newbie puzzle to actually get synthesised!!
That means a tiny little bit of RNA that I designed is going to be made in a lab so that we can see how it folds itself up, and then we can compare that to how we thought it would fold itself up... and thus, hopefully, advance science a bit!
Also, it's fun.
