Player-Created Guides
From Eterna Wiki
This is a list of player-created guides for EteRNA. It is by no means comprehensive.
General
| Name | Author | Description |
| Comprehensive guide to EteRNA | Eli Fisker, Brourd, Starry | Guide to the guides. An introduction to the game resources and how to get well started. |
| EteRNA Dictionary | Eli Fisker | A large document listing all the terms used in the other guides with pictures. |
| EteRNA Toolbox | Eli Fisker |
A list of keyboard shortcuts. |
| A Gamer’s Guide to Eterna | rna-key |
Eterna game mechanics, basic game play, tactics and scenarios, and a path to mastering the game. Appendices on science and art. Published in 2020. |
Puzzle-solving Guides (single state puzzles)
| Name | Author | Description |
| Loops guide | mpb21 | The first guide on stabilizing loops. |
| Vienna vs Eternafold | JPS838898 | A guide for Vienna vs. EternaFold |
| General strategies | Multiple players | Players sharing general puzzle solving strategies in the forum. |
| Puzzle Solving Guide (Addition) | Eli Fisker | A great introduction for players learning how to solve puzzles. |
| Loop Guide | Eli Fisker | Useful tricks for solving tricky loops. |
| Multiloop Guide | Eli Fisker | A visual overview of how energy in multiloops can be lowered. |
| Tips and Tricks | Eli Fisker | A compilation of useful tricks for solving unusual shapes. |
| Stack Guide | dimension9 | A table of nearest-neighbor energy terms for stacks. |
| Hairpin Guide | mat747 |
A picture of successful hairpin sequences in mat747's lab designs. |
| Boost guide (New slide show version) | Brourd | A fine guide on how to stabilize loops. |
| Advanced Puzzle Solving Guide | Drake | A guide to puzzle solving that goes at puzzle solving from an energy perspective. |
| Puzzle solving guide |
Brourd | A fundamental guide that will show you the basics of puzzle solving. |
| Beginner's to Puzzle Solving | Brourd | A fundamental guide that will show you the basics of puzzle solving. |
| Challenge Puzzles Quick Solve Guide | Jennifer Pearl |
A visual guide showing good and bad puzzle solving style beside each other. |
Puzzle-solving Guides (switches)
| Switch Puzzle Guide |
Eli Fisker | Collection of switch puzzle guides, walkthroughs and solving methods. |
| Switch Training Series | Nando | Fantastic walkthrough giving the reasoning behind solving switches. |
| How to solve a switch |
JR | Great walkthrough on how to solve a switch puzzle. |
| Hand and Finger Walkthrough | Meechl | Visual walhthrough on how to solve a switch puzzle and get ready for lab. |
| A TRIPLE SWITCH WALKTHROUGH for EteRNAddicts everywhere | Jieux | Awesome guide for dealing with 3 state switch puzzles. |
Lab Guides
| Name | Author | Description |
| Lab Guide | Eli Fisker | Strategies for making successful designs in lab. |
| Lab Guide for new players | Eli Fisker | More strategies for making successful designs in lab. |
| Lab Guide | mpb21 | Strategies for making successful designs in lab. |
| A guide to using Vienna RNA fold | Eli Fisker | A guide to using Vienna - for assessing potential Lab designs. |
| GC Pairs in Lab | ccccc | Why you don't want to make Christmas trees in lab. |
| Mat's lab design strategy | Mat747 | Strategies for good lab designing. |
| Quick guide to the lab | Eli Fisker | Quick introduction to the lab tools. |
| Ways to deal with voting in huge labs [1] [2] | Eli Fisker | Lab voting methods. |
| Ways to deal with designing in huge labs | Eli Fisker | Methods for improved lab designing. |
| Switch Lab Guide | Eli Fisker | Collection of info on switches and advice for the switch lab designing. |
| General lab info and lab tech details | Eli Fisker | Collection of info from chat, forum, devs etc. relevant to labs and lab designing. |
| CSE using LabDataMiner for Lab "Late Bulge" | JandersonLee | A demonstration of how to use the LabDataMiner for lab designing. |
| CSE for Reversed G-C Multibranch Loop Closing Base Pairs | JandersonLee | A demonstration of how to use the LabDataMiner for lab designing in designs with multiloops. |
| Reading the lab results - Intro to SHAPE data | Eli Fisker | Intro on how to read lab results and SHAPE data. |
| Lab Manual - The Eterna History Tour | Eli Fisker | Learn how to do lab work. This lab guide is connected to the ongoing lab project for lab introduction. |
| MS2 - Thoughts about the lab data | Eli Fisker | Mixture of analysis, chat discussions on the lab and highlighting areas of interest for designing and analysis. |
| Different types of switches | Eli Fisker | Boiled down Switch lab Guide. Intro to switch tendencies and what has worked for them so far. |
| Switch Lab Intro | Eli Fisker | Quick intro to main tendencies for working lab switches. |
| MS2 Lab Intro | Eli Fisker | Introduction on how to start solving a switch lab puzzle in an MS2 lab. |
| MicroRNA Intro [3] | Eli Fisker | Introduction to microRNA, Eterna Medicine and the Feynman challenge. |
| Doing Math with RNA | Eli Fisker | Simple approach for doing math with RNA. |
| A Tutorial for A/B Ramp-up puzzles | Omei, Eli Fisker | Introduction to puzzles and lab for the A/B switch labs. |
| Logic Gates | Eli Fisker | Pointers for the logic gates lab. |
| A*B/C^2 neutral Design for both DEC and INC TB puzzles | AndrewKae | Tips for designing for the hard TB A*B/C^2 DEC and INC puzzles. |
