Strengths supported by sources
- Uses later experimental annotations to assess predictions made in advance.cafa official source · Official CAFA page: The CAFA Challenge, prediction and annotation-growth timeline
benchmark · challenge
CAFA
CAFA is a time-based challenge for predicting protein function.
At a glance
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| Property | Description and evidence |
|---|---|
| Record type | Prospective challengecafa official source · Official CAFA page: The CAFA Challenge, prediction and annotation-growth timeline |
| Inputs | Protein sequences and ontology-term predictionscafa official source · Official CAFA page: The CAFA Challenge, prediction and annotation-growth timeline |
| Outputs and assessment | Agreement with subsequently acquired functional annotationscafa official source · Official CAFA page: The CAFA Challenge, prediction and annotation-growth timeline |
| Datasets | Not extracted or verified for this record. |
| Organisms | Not extracted or verified for this record. |
| Assays | Not extracted or verified for this record. |
| Splits | Not extracted or verified for this record. |
| Adaptation | Not extracted or verified for this record. |
| Baselines | Not extracted or verified for this record. |
How it works
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- Release target sequences
- Submit functions
- Accumulate new annotations
- Assess predictions
Procedure
Submit ontology-term predictions before the deadline. Proteins receiving experimental annotations after submission become evaluation targets for that challenge round.
cafa official source · Official CAFA page: The CAFA Challenge, prediction and annotation-growth timelineTested models and results
Release 2026-09-16-d74d282221a9 · 0 evaluations · 0 metric rows. Different protocols are not a single leaderboard.
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Strengths and limitations
Limitations and conditions
- Only proteins that acquire suitable annotations enter the assessed set; ontology version, round and scoring rules must be recorded.cafa official source · Official CAFA page: The CAFA Challenge, prediction and annotation-growth timeline
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Stable record: discovery-benchmark-cafaApplicable tests and references
Applicability is distinct from a completed evaluation.
- Protein homology transfer · proposed
- HH-suite · Proposed association
- MMseqs2 · Proposed association
Sources and history
Release 2026-09-16-d74d282221a9 · Record review: discovered
- cafa official source · Original source · Not reported
Technical metadata and extraction receipts
Stable ID: discovery-benchmark-cafa
- areas
- protein-function
- entity level
- challenge
- missing metadata
- dataset release: unextracted; metric implementation: unextracted; split manifest: unextracted; version: unextracted
- scope note
- Specialist molecular or omics evaluation; protocol details require review before numerical comparison.
- task
- Protein function prediction challenge
- version
- Not reported
Related records
- applicable to: Protein homology transfer
- applicable to: HH-suite
- applicable to: MMseqs2