Protein Structure Prediction Center
Independent Assessors

CASP organizers are grateful to the independent assessors, who carried out the evaluation of predictions and by so doing gauged the state-of-the-art in the field.

Experiment
Comparative Modeling
Fold Recognition (Threading)
Ab initio (New Fold)
CASP1 (1994)
Michael James
University of Alberta
Shoshana Wodak
Free University of Brussels
Fred Cohen
Univ. of California, San Francisco
CASP2 (1996)
Janet Thornton
University College London
Michael Levitt
Stanford University
Arthur Lesk
University of Cambridge
CASP3 (1998)
Alwyn Jones
Uppsala University
Alexey Murzin
MRC Centre, Cambridge
Christine Orengo
University College London
CASP4 (2000)
Anna Tramontano
University of Rome
Manfred Sippl
University of Salzburg
Arthur Lesk
University of Cambridge
CASP5 (2002)
Anna Tramontano
University of Rome
Nick Grishin
University of Texas
Rob Russel
EMBL, Heidelberg
CASP6 (2004)
Alfonso Valencia
CNB, Madrid
Roland Dunbrack
Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia
BK Lee
NCI/NIH, Bethesda

Template-based modeling
High resolution modeling
Template-free modeling
CASP7 (2006)
Torsten Schwede
University of Basel
Randy Read
University of Cambridge
Neil Clarke
Genome Institute of Singapore

Template-based modeling
Refinement and physics-based modeling
Template-free modeling
Prediction of function, domains and contacts
CASP8 (2008)
Jane Richardson
Duke University, USA
Ken Dill
Univ. of California, San Francisco, USA
Joel Sussman
The Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
Michael Tress
CNIO, Madrid, Spain
CASP9 (2010)
Torsten Schwede
University of Basel, Switzerland
Ken Dill
Univ. of California, San Francisco, USA
Nick Grishin
University of Texas, Dallas, USA

Template-based modeling
Refinement
Template-free modeling
Contact-assisted prediction
CASP10 (2012)
Gaetano T. Montelione
Rutgers University, USA
David T. Jones
University College London, UK
BK Lee
NCI/NIH, Bethesda, USA
BK Lee
NCI/NIH, Bethesda, USA
CASP11 (2014)
Roland Dunbrack
Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, USA
Roland Dunbrack
Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, USA
Nick Grishin
University of Texas, Dallas, USA
Nick Grishin
University of Texas, Dallas, USA

Assembly
Refinement
Template-free;
Contact-assisted
Contacts
Biological relevance
CASP12 (2016)
Guido Capitani, Aleix Lafita
Paul Scherrer Institut (PSI), Villigen, Switzerland
Franceso Gervasio
University College London, UK
Matteo Dal Peraro
EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland
Alexandre Bonvin
Utrecht University, Netherlands
Russ Altman (assessor and coordinator)
Stanford University, USA

Assembly
Template-based modeling; Refinement
Template-free modeling
Contacts;
Xlink-assisted
SAXS-assisted
NMR-assisted
Accuracy assessment
CASP13 (2018)
Jose Duarte
RCSB, San Diego, USA
Randy Read
Cambridge University, UK
Matteo Dal Peraro
EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland
Andras Fiser
Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, USA
Susan Tsutakawa; Greg Hura
Lawrence Berkeley Lab, USA
Gaetano Montelione
Rutgers University, USA
Chaok Seok
Seoul National University, South Korea

Assembly
High accuracy modeling
Template-free modeling
Contacts
Refinement
Accuracy assessment
Biological Relevance
CASP14 (2020)
Ezgi Karaca
Izmir Biomedicine and Genome Center, Turkey
Andrei Lupas
Max Planck, Tuebingen, Germany
Nick Grishin
UT Southwestern, Dallas, TX, USA
Alfonso Valencia
Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain
Daniel Rigden
University of Liverpool, UK
Chaok Seok
Seoul National University, South Korea
Sandor Vajda; Dima Kozakov
Boston University, MA; Stony Brook University, NY, USA

Assembly
Single protein /domain
Accuracy assessment
Ligands
RNA
CASP15 (2022)
Ezgi Karaca
Izmir Biomedicine and Genome Center, Turkey
Daniel Rigden
University of Liverpool, UK
Gabriel Studer
Biozentrum, Basel, Switzerland
Patrick Walters
Relay Therapeutics, Cambridge, MA, USA
Rhiju Das
Stanford University, CA, USA

Protein structure,
single and assembly
Ensembles
Accuracy assessment
Ligands
RNA
CASP16 (2024)
Nick Grishin
University of Texas, Southwestern, USA
Gaetano Montelione
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, USA
Randy Read
University of Cambridge, UK
Michael Gilson
University of California, San Diego, CA, USA
Rhiju Das
Stanford University, CA, USA

According to CASP policy, assessors are not allowed to be directly involved in the organization of the experiment, nor can they take part in the experiment in the role of predictors.

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