reporter: at the institute for protein design, biochemistry students are teaming up with gamers who play fold it. an interactive, online game developed by the university. that lets players tackle puzzles for science. if all the players are very, very ingenious and intelligent. and they, they have developed algorithms that parallel our algorithms. reporter: the ebola challenge is to fold a protein in the best position to stick to the ebola protein. this is a good starting place for drug design. reporter: 500 gamers from around the world took on the last ebola challenge. several came up with top scoring solutions for jamming the virus s ability to infect people. proteins can have many many, many different types of structures, and the computer cannot survey all possible structures. so gamers are coming up with new types of structure that is have