Foldit Alternatives

Foldit is described as '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)' and is an app in the education & reference category. There are more than 10 alternatives to Foldit for a variety of platforms, including Web-based, Windows, Mac, Linux and Self-Hosted apps. The best Foldit alternative is Charity Engine, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Foldit are Folding@home, EyeWire, Distributed Proofreaders and GridRepublic.

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  1. Charity Engine icon

    Charity Engine

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    Charity Engine takes enormous, expensive computing jobs and chops them into 1000s of small pieces, each simple enough for a home PC to work on as a background task. Once each PC has finished its part of the puzzle, it sends back the correct answer and earns some money for...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
     

    • Charity Engine is the most popular Windows & Mac alternative to Foldit.

    • Charity Engine is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to Foldit.

    • Charity Engine is Free and Open SourceFoldit is Free and Proprietary
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    Folding@home

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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 Linux alternative to Foldit.

    • Folding@home is Free and ProprietaryFoldit is also Free and Proprietary
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    EyeWire

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    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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

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

    • EyeWire is Free and ProprietaryFoldit is also Free and Proprietary
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    Distributed Proofreaders

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    Distributed Proofreaders provides a web-based method to ease the conversion of Public Domain books into e-books. By dividing the workload into individual pages, many volunteers can work on a book at the same time, which significantly speeds up the creation process.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Online
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    GridRepublic

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    GridRepublic is a customized version of the BOINC software designed to simplify installation and participation by the average computer user.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
     
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    Biogenesis

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    Biogenesis is a program that simulates in a visual fashion the processes involved in the evolution of unicellular organisms at nature.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  9. EteRNA icon

    EteRNA

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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 screenshot 1
     
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    Phylo

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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
    Phylo screenshot 1
     
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    Zooniverse

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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...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
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    Quantum Moves

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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
    Welcome to Quantum Moves
     
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    Classcraft

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    Watch students become better learners as they level up, work in teams, and earn privileges to help them succeed.

    4 Classcraft alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     

  14. PiCloud

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    PiCloud gives every scientist, developer, and engineer a supercomputer at their fingertips. We make it easy to leverage thousands of cores of computational power for high performance computing, batch processing, and scientific computing applications.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
     

    • PiCloud is the most popular commercial alternative to Foldit.

    • PiCloud is Paid and ProprietaryFoldit is Free and Proprietary
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