CASP (Critical Assessment of Structure Prediction)

Biennial blind evaluation of protein structure prediction; drove AlphaFold's validation.

Kind
competition
Composite
100.0
Benchmarks tracked
16
Direct-linked
13
As of
2026-05-12
Host organisation
Prediction Center, UC Davis
Primary contacts
John Moult, Andriy Kryshtafovych
Founded
1994
License model
Public
Official site
→ site
GitHub
→ GitHub
Count methodology
predictioncenter.org archives: CASP1 (1994) through CASP16 (2024) = 16 editions; ~100 targets × ~5 categories per edition.

Rubric

rigor
5
coverage
5
maintenance
5
adoption
5
quality
5
accessibility
5
industry_relevance
5

Breakdown

editions
16
categories_per_edition
5
targets_avg
100

Notes

Historical gold standard for blind evaluation. CASP15 added ligands; CASP16 added multimer + RNA.

Hosted benchmarks (13)

Direct-linked — each links to the benchmark’s leaderboard / detail page on the host portal.
Special (3)
Structure prediction edition (10)

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