CAPRI: a Critical Assessment of PRedicted Interactions.
CAPRI is a communitywide experiment to assess the capacity of protein-docking methods to predict protein-protein interactions. Nineteen groups participated in rounds 1 and 2 of CAPRI and submitted blind structure predictions for seven protein-protein complexes based on the known structure of the component proteins. The predictions were compared to the unpublished X-ray structures of the complexes. We describe here the motivations for launching CAPRI, the rules that we applied to select targets and run the experiment, and some conclusions that can already be drawn. The results stress the need for new scoring functions and for methods handling the conformation changes that were observed in some of the target systems. CAPRI has already been a powerful drive for the community of computational biologists who development docking algorithms. We hope that this issue of Proteins will also be of interest to the community of structural biologists, which we call upon to provide new targets for future rounds of CAPRI, and to all molecular biologists who view protein-protein recognition as an essential process.
Janin
Joël
J
Laboratoire d'Enzymologie et Biochimie Structurales, CNRS, Gif-sur-Yvette, France. janin@lebs.cnrs-gif.fr
Henrick
Kim
K
Moult
John
J
Eyck
Lynn Ten
LT
Sternberg
Michael J E
MJ
Vajda
Sandor
S
Vakser
Ilya
I
Wodak
Shoshana J
SJ
D000465:Algorithms; D018360:Crystallography, X-Ray; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D005544:Forecasting; D023281:Genomics; D046911:Macromolecular Substances; D008958:Models, Molecular; D011487:Protein Conformation; D025941:Protein Interaction Mapping; D011506:Proteins / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000378:metabolism*; D015203:Reproducibility of Results
D046911:Macromolecular Substances; D011506:Proteins