The Tournament provides a transparent platform for fostering collaboration, evaluating progress, and establishing benchmarks in the field. 

The Protein Engineering Tournament fosters advances in AI x Bio and evolves upon classic protein design competitions by employing high-throughput automation to determine the Tournament winner by experimentation. The Tournament empowers computational scientists to move beyond the confines of the dry lab to benchmark their protein design techniques in silico and in vitro.

During the Tournament, participants use protein function datasets to progress from predicting properties to designing proteins. Automated methods are developed to generate datasets for the competition and evaluate the final protein designs, selecting the winners through experimentation. This cycle generates open-source, dynamic datasets and standardized, automated protocols for the community for continued benchmarking by future teams.