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
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.
Structure prediction edition (10)
CASP7Structure prediction editionCASP8Structure prediction editionCASP9Structure prediction editionCASP10Structure prediction editionCASP11Structure prediction editionCASP12Structure prediction editionCASP13Structure prediction editionCASP14Structure prediction editionCASP15Structure prediction editionCASP16Structure prediction edition