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Critical assessment of methods of protein structure prediction (CASP)—round IX
Author(s) -
Moult John,
Fidelis Krzysztof,
Kryshtafovych Andriy,
Tramontano Anna
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
proteins: structure, function, and bioinformatics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.699
H-Index - 191
eISSN - 1097-0134
pISSN - 0887-3585
DOI - 10.1002/prot.23200
Subject(s) - casp , protein structure prediction , computer science , set (abstract data type) , protein structure , computational biology , biology , programming language , biochemistry
This article is an introduction to the special issue of the journal PROTEINS, dedicated to the ninth Critical Assessment of Structure Prediction (CASP) experiment to assess the state of the art in protein structure modeling. The article describes the conduct of the experiment, the categories of prediction included, and outlines the evaluation and assessment procedures. Methods for modeling protein structure continue to advance, although at a more modest pace than in the early CASP experiments. CASP developments of note are indications of improvement in model accuracy for some classes of target, an improved ability to choose the most accurate of a set of generated models, and evidence of improvement in accuracy for short “new fold” models. In addition, a new analysis of regions of models not derivable from the most obvious template structure has revealed better performance than expected. Proteins 2011; © 2011 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.