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[[File:Protein-structure.png|right|thumb|Constituent amino-acids can be analyzed to predict secondary, tertiary and quaternary protein structure.]]

'''Protein structure prediction''' is the inference of the three-dimensional structure of a [[protein]] from its [[amino acid]] sequence—that is, the prediction of its [[Protein secondary structure|secondary]] and [[Protein tertiary structure|tertiary structure]] from [[Protein primary structure|primary structure]]. Structure prediction is different from the inverse problem of [[protein design]]. 

Protein structure prediction is one of the most important goals pursued by [[computational biology]] and addresses [[Levinthal's paradox]]. Accurate structure prediction has important applications in [[medicine]] (for example, in [[drug design]]) and [[biotechnology]] (for example, in novel [[enzyme]] design).

Starting in 1994, the performance of current methods is assessed biannually in the ''Critical Assessment of Structure Prediction'' ([[CASP]]) experiment. A continuous evaluation of protein structure prediction web servers is performed by the community project ''Continuous Automated Model EvaluatiOn'' ([[CAMEO3D]]).