CASP6-CASP8 meetings

描述（由申请人提供）：要求支持一项社区范围的实验，以严格评估从序列预测蛋白质结构（CASP）的当前最新技术水平。申请资助的实验将涵盖CASP 6-CASP 8，即一系列此类实验中的第六至第八项。以前的实验从1994年至2002年每两年举行一次。共有300多个团体向所有CASP会议提交了8万多份个人预测。CASP的目标是对我们目前的能力进行深入和客观的评估，并评估自上次实验以来的进展。CASP无疑是结构预测领域的重大事件，因为在过去十年中对该领域产生重大影响的所有团体都参与了这项实验。CASP还为培训序列分析新手提供了极好的机会。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Support is requested for a community wide experiment to critically assess the current state-of-the-art in the prediction of protein structure from sequence (CASP). The experiments for which funding is requested will cover CASP6-CASP8, i.e. the sixth to eighth such experiments in a series. Previous experiments were held biannually from 1994-2002. A total of over 300 groups have submitted over 80,000 individual predictions to all CASP meetings. The goal of CASP is to provide an in-depth and objective assessment of our current abilities, and to assess progress since the last experiment. CASP is undoubtedly the major event in the field of structure prediction, in the sense that all groups who impacted this field significantly over the last decade have participated in this experiment. CASP also offers an excellent opportunity for training newcomers in sequence analysis.