Sayed M. E. Sahraeian

TL;DR: The second critical assessment of functional annotation (CAFA) conducted, a timed challenge to assess computational methods that automatically assign protein function, revealed that the definition of top-performing algorithms is ontology specific, that different performance metrics can be used to probe the nature of accurate predictions, and the relative diversity of predictions in the biological process and human phenotype ontologies.

TL;DR: The second Critical Assessment of Functional Annotation (CAFA) challenge as mentioned in this paper was the first attempt to assess computational methods that automatically assign protein function. And the results of CAFA2 showed that computational function prediction is improving.