Winning worldwide CASP competition: Yang Zhang does it again!

October 27, 2008

Assistant Professor of Bioinformatics Yang Zhang wins the server section of the Critical Assessment of Structure Prediction (CASP) contest again, the second time in a row, repeating his extraordinary achievement at 2006 CASP (see News). CASP is a biannual worldwide competition in blind protein structure prediction, in which the organizers solicit new protein structures from the experimentalists and offer the sequences to the community of modelers for blind prediction. The CASP competition is the most high-profile event in computational structural biology and bioinformatics. Yang’s repeated success in the automated server predictions, across all structure prediction categories, with a clear margin from the rest of the participating teams, solidifies his leadership in the computational structure prediction field. Our congratulations on this extraordinary occasion, which has become familiar, to Yang and his team members!