With protein structure prediction recently getting a seismic boost in accuracy, hopes are also up to better predict unstructured protein regions that can adopt diverse conformations. CAID, a community effort to revive systematic benchmarking, should help.
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Lang, B., Babu, M.M. A community effort to bring structure to disorder. Nat Methods 18, 454–455 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41592-021-01123-5
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