Stone to Silicon

Health & biology · 1994

CASP

A biennial contest scoring blind predictions of protein structures against lab results.

John Moult launched CASP in 1994 to measure progress honestly on protein folding. For two decades gains were slow, which made AlphaFold's jump in CASP13 and CASP14 unmistakable.

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