Critical assessment of methods of protein structure prediction (CASP)—Round <scp>XIV</scp>

Abstract

Abstract Critical assessment of structure prediction (CASP) is a community experiment to advance methods of computing three‐dimensional protein structure from amino acid sequence. Core components are rigorous blind testing of methods and evaluation of the results by independent assessors. In the most recent experiment (CASP14), deep‐learning methods from one research group consistently delivered computed structures rivaling the corresponding experimental ones in accuracy. In this sense, the results represent a solution to the classical protein‐folding problem, at least for single proteins. The models have already been shown to be capable of providing solutions for problematic crystal structures, and there are broad implications for the rest of structural biology. Other research groups also substantially improved performance. Here, we describe these results and outline some of the many implications. Other related areas of CASP, including modeling of protein complexes, structure refinement, estimation of model accuracy, and prediction of inter‐residue contacts and distances, are also described.

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Affiliated Institutions

• Universität Hamburg DE
• University of Maryland, College Park US
• SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics CH
• University of California, Davis US
• Centre for Structural Systems Biology DE
• University of Basel CH
• University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf DE
• Institute for Bioscience and Biotechnology Research

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