The casp contests Critical assessment of protein structure Prediction Began in 1994( CASP1) · Held every two years Experimentalists submit target sequences Predictors submit and rank blind predictions assessors develop criteria to judge success A meeting is held to discuss the results and a journal issue (of ProteIns) is published to describe them In theory, this identifies the problem areas and people go back and work on them for the next round of caspThe CASP contests • Critical Assessment of Protein Structure Prediction • Began in 1994 (CASP1) • Held every two years • Experimentalists submit target sequences • Predictors submit and rank blind predictions • Assessors develop criteria to judge success • A meeting is held to discuss the results and a journal issue (of PROTEINS) is published to describe them • In theory, this identifies the problem areas and people go back and work on them for the next round of CASP