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Contact maps can broadly speaking be seen as distance maps with a specific distance cutoff applied.
In recent years, the accuracy of contact prediction has greatly improved [@doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1005324; @doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btu791; @doi:10.1073/pnas.0805923106; @doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0028766].

Protein contact prediction and contact-assisted folding (i.e. folding proteins using predicted contacts as restraints) represents a promising new direction for *ab initio* folding of proteins without good templates in PDB.
Protein contact prediction and contact-assisted folding (i.e. folding proteins using predicted contacts as restraints) has proven to be a successful direction for *ab initio* folding of proteins without good templates in PDB.
Co-evolution analysis is effective for proteins with a very large number (>1000) of sequence homologs [@doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0028766], but fares poorly for proteins without many sequence homologs.
By combining co-evolution information with a few other protein features, shallow neural network methods such as MetaPSICOV [@doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btu791] and CoinDCA-NN [@doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btv472] have shown some advantage over pure co-evolution analysis for proteins with few sequence homologs, but their accuracy is still far from satisfactory.
In recent years, deeper architectures have been explored for contact prediction, such as CMAPpro [@doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/bts475], DNCON [@doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/bts598] and PConsC [@doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003889].
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RaptorX-Contact [@doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1005324] significantly improved contact prediction over MetaPSICOV and pure co-evolution methods, especially for proteins without many sequence homologs.
It employed a network architecture formed by one 1D residual neural network and one 2D residual neural network. Blindly tested in the latest Critical Assesment of Structure Prediction (CASP) competition (i.e. CASP12 [@url:http://www.predictioncenter.org/casp12/rrc_avrg_results.cgi]), RaptorX-Contact ranked first in F₁ score on free-modeling targets as well as the whole set of targets. In CAMEO (which can be interpreted as a fully-automated CASP) [@url:https://www.cameo3d.org], its predicted contacts were also able to fold proteins with a novel fold and only 65--330 sequence homologs.
This technique also worked well on membrane proteins even when trained on non-membrane proteins [@arxiv:1704.07207].
RaptorX-Contact performed better mainly due to introduction of residual neural networks and exploitation of contact occurrence patterns by simultaneously predicting all the contacts in a single protein.
RaptorX-Contact performed better mainly due to introduction of very deep convolutional residual neural networks and exploitation of contact occurrence patterns by simultaneously predicting all the contacts in a single protein.

Most methods until late 2018 relied on just one distance threshold, simply defined by the ideal contact distance, to produce contact maps for 3D structure prediction.
Recent seminal work presented at the 13th edition of CASP combined multiple distance cutoffs together with torsion prediction and a new folding pipeline to achieve state of the art results [@doi:10.1038/s41586-019-1923-7].
Recent seminal work presented at the 13th edition of CASP combined multiple distance cutoffs together with torsion prediction and a new folding pipeline to achieve state of the art results [@doi:10.1073/pnas.1821309116; @doi:10.1038/s41586-019-1923-7].

Taken together, *ab initio* folding is becoming much easier with the advent of direct evolutionary coupling analysis and deep learning techniques.

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