US Department of Energy (DOE)
National Institutes of Health (NIH) and National Library of Medicine (NLM)
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
Molecular Simulations Inc. (MSI)

CASP2 description CASP2 proceedings Meeting program List of participants Abstracts CASP2 in numbers List of prediction groups Proteins provided as prediction targets

A December 1996 meeting was a culmination of a 9 month long, community wide experiment in objective testing of the structure prediction methods. Before the meeting, 42 structural targets provided by crystallographers and NMR spectroscopists were made available to the prediction community. For the first time targets in the docking category were included in addition to those in comparative modeling, fold recognition, and ab initio folding. Prior to the public release of structures, more than 900 predictions by approximately 70 research groups world wide were collected. Verification of the prediction targets, the submission formats, and the development of software for the automatic evaluation of predictions was done by Aron Marchler-Bauer, NLM, Ceslovas Venclovas and Adam Zemla, Protein Structure Prediction Center. Independent assessors this time were Janet Thornton, University College, London, for comparative modeling, Michael Levitt, Stanford University, for fold recognition, and Arthur Lesk, University of Cambridge Clinical School, for ab initio predictions. The assessments will be published in an upcoming issue of PROTEINS.

Organizing Committee

Tim Hubbard       Co-chair   Centre for Protein Engineering, Cambridge, UK
Steve Bryant      Co-chair   NCBI, National Library of Medicine, USA
John Moult        President  CARB, University of Maryland, USA
Jan T. Pedersen              CARB, University of Maryland, USA
Krzysztof Fidelis            Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA
Rod Balhorn                  Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA
Richard Judson               Sandia National Laboratory, USA.