Scientific VR workshop Friday, 22 February 2019 from 10:00 to 17:30 (GMT) at the Francis Crick Institute, St Pancras, London

BioBlox2D Mobile docking puzzle game

BioBlox2D is a free mobile game for iOS and Android where you have to dock molecules together! Matching different shapes and charges.
Switch, Rotate, Swipe and match the Ligands to create the perfect match for the Receptor. Learn about the fascinating world of bio-molecules and their interaction.

BioBloxVR

BioBloxVR Feel the docking experience!

BioBloxVR is a visualization tool for the docking of proteins using virtual reality. It is still under development if you want to have a try contact us!

About the project

BioBlox2D is a spin-off from BioBlox and is a smartphone/tablet game based on docking molecular fragments into a receptor . It is available from the Apple app store and Google Play. Matching involves both spatial and charge complementarity and the game is motivated by a simple version of fragment-based drug discovery. Linked to BioBlox2D is an educational quiz, for example asking the player to identify vitamin C to prevent scurvy. BioBlox2D was launched on June 20th 2017 and attracted good write-ups in the press including in The Science Focus magazine. We have demonstrated BioBlox at the Imperial Festival (in May 2016 and May 2017) and at New Scientist Live at the London ExCel Exhibition Centre (in Sept 2016 and 2017).

The BioBlox project is supported by the BBSRC

Events & News

January 2019: BioBlox and Bioblox2D at the Bett Show, ExCel London www.bettshow.com (Jan 23-26).
April 2018: BioBlox suite of games (2D, 3D, VR) at the annual Imperial Festival, Imperial College, London (Apr. 28-29).
September 2017: BioBloxVR on show at the next New Scientist Live, ExCeL London : live.newscientist.com(Sept. 28 – Oct. 1).
May 2017: BioBlox suite of games (2D, 3D, VR) at the annual Imperial Festival (May 6-7).
February 2017: BioBlox suite of games (2D, 3D, VR) at the annual Schroedinger lecture, Imperial College London (Feb. 1st).
December 2016: First version of BioBlox3D in VR shown at the Develop VR day in London.
October 2016: BioBlox 2D and 3D to be shown at the Imperial Global Challenge Showcase (27-28 Imperial College White City Campus). Tickets and show information here.
September 2016: both the 2D (first time) and 3D versions of BioBlox to be shown at the New Scientist Live event (London ExCeL, September 22-25).
July 2016: BioBlox was shown at Develop, the annual UK games industry main meeting (Brighton, July 12-14).
May 2016: BioBlox was shown at the Imperial Festival (May 7-8, Imperial College London).
March 2016: BioBlox was shown at the 7th VizBi meeting (EMBL, in Heidelberg, Germany March 9-11).
December 2015: BioBlox was shown at BiVi 2015, the 2nd annual UK meeting of the Bio-Visualisation Community (Dec. 2-3, the Genome Analysis Centre, Norwich).
September 2015: Fringe event on the theme of Designs for Life (Sept. 24, Imperial College London)

Publications

20 June 2017: Press Release

Team

The BioBlox group consists of two teams, one based @ the Dept. of Life Sciences @ Imperial College London and one based @ the Dept. of Computing @ Goldsmiths College, also in London, UK. These two teams have worked together since 2007 on various projects, including the History of the Species (SIGGRAPH 2007) and FoldSynth (BioVis 2011). Joining them are Experts and Games Industry & Technology Partners.

Professor Michael Sternberg

Principal Investigator. Director of the Centre for Bioinformatics, Imperial College London.

Professor Frederic Fol Leymarie

co-Director of the MSc CGE. Principal Investigator, Goldsmiths College.

Professor William Latham

co-Director of the MSc CGE. Principal Investigator, Goldsmiths College.

Richard Leinfellner

Product manager. Goldsmiths College.

Luis Armas

Developer. Goldsmiths College.

Guido Salimbeni

Research Associate. Goldsmiths College.

Charlie Cook

Developer. Imperial College.

Dr. Alessia David

Research Associate. Imperial College.

Dr. Suhail Islam