In Borderlands 3, you can play a game within the game that supposedly helps sort DNA sequence in real life. How does it do that?

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In Borderlands 3, you can play a game within the game that supposedly helps sort DNA sequence in real life. How does it do that?

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It is protein folding. We have machines that can scan DNA. And the DNA encodes the sequences of amino acids to build proteins from. The protein folds together as the amino acids attract or repel each other in specific ways. The shape that the protein folds into is very important to how they work. But this is one problem which computers are very bad at. It is very hard for a computer to calculate the patterns and make good guesses to how the protein folds. It turns out that the human brain is much better at this then even large supercomputers.