SAM-T2k-server, SAM-T06-server, SAM-T08-server 

Old servers serve as historical baseline for evaluating progress in prediction methods

Kevin Karplus
University of California, Santa Cruz
karplus@soe.ucsc.edu

Due to two years without funding, the group at UCSC did not test any
new methods in CASP9, but only provided three old servers (SAM_T02,
SAM_T06, and SAM_T08) for historical comparisons.  Note that the
SAM_T08 server is essentially the same as the SAM_T08_server in CASP8,
not even including improvements using in SAM_T08_human predictions in
CASP8.

The databases searched by these three servers have been kept up to
date, but the methods have not changed (except in small unavoidable
ways as some software was broken by changes to the server compilers
or operating systems, and had to be replaced by newer versions that
would run on the current system).  Thus the servers represent a fairly
stable baseline for judging the difficulty of targets, which is
important for determining whether there has been progress in other
methods.

Unless we get some funding for protein structure prediction in the next
year, we will not be participating in future CASP experiments at all,
and will not be doing further work in protein structure prediction.