EyeWire Alternatives

EyeWire is described as 'Eyewire is a game to map the brain. Anyone can play and you need no scientific background. Hundreds of thousands of people from around the world already do. Together we are mapping the 3D structure of neurons and advancing our quest to understand ourselves' and is an website in the education & reference category. There are seven alternatives to EyeWire, not only websites but also apps for Mac, Windows, Linux and Docker. The best EyeWire alternative is Folding@home, which is free. Other great sites and apps similar to EyeWire are Foldit, EteRNA, Phylo and Zooniverse.

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  1. Folding@home icon
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    Folding@home is a distributed computing project -- people from throughout the world download and run software to band together to make one of the largest supercomputers in the world. Every computer takes the project closer to our goals.

    20 Folding@home alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Docker
     
    • Folding@home is the most popular Windows, Mac & Linux alternative to EyeWire.

    • Folding@home is the most popular free alternative to EyeWire.

    • Folding@home is Free and ProprietaryEyeWire is also Free and Proprietary
  2. Foldit icon
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    Foldit is an experimental video game about protein folding, developed as a collaboration between the University of Washington's departments of Computer Science and Engineering and Biochemistry (many of the same people who created Rosetta@home).

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  3. EteRNA icon
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    Eterna is a citizen science game where players learn to design RNA molecules for medical research by solving puzzles. Complete these puzzles to unlock lab access and participate in challenges where you can invent medicine!.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Online
     
    • EteRNA is the most popular Web-based alternative to EyeWire.

    • EteRNA is the most popular Open Source alternative to EyeWire.

    • EteRNA is Free and Open SourceEyeWire is Free and Proprietary
  4. Phylo icon
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    Though it may appear to be just a game, Phylo is actually a framework for harnessing the computing power of mankind to solve a common problem; Multiple Sequence Alignments.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  5. Zooniverse icon
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    The Zooniverse is home to the internet's largest, most popular and most successful citizen science projects. Our current projects are here but plenty more are on the way. If you're new to the Zooniverse, we suggest picking a project and diving in - the same account will...

    9 Zooniverse alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  6. Quantum Moves icon
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    Quantum Moves, part of the scienceathome.org umbrella concept, was born out of the dilemmas and questions the physics researchers at Aarhus University confronted with when they took the challenge of building a quantum computer in the basement lab of the university.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
     
  7. The Cure icon
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    The Cure is a serious, biology-based card game. Assemble the best hands and you can win - just like poker. The challenge with The Cure is that we don't know the rules yet! Until you play, we can't tell you if you have the equivalent of a royal flush or a pair of 2s.

    7 The Cure alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Online
     
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