The Function Community of Special Interest (Function-COSI) brings together computational biologists, experimental biologists, and biocurators who are dealing with the important problem of gene and gene product function prediction to share ideas and create collaborations. The Function-COSI holds annual meetings at the Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology ([ISMB](https://www.iscb.org/ismbeccb2023)) conference and conducts the multi-year Critical Assessment of protein Function Annotation ([CAFA](https://biofunctionprediction.org/)) experiment, an ongoing, global, community-driven effort to evaluate and improve the computational annotation of protein function.

CAFA is co-chaired by [Iddo Friedberg](https://friedberglab.net/) (Iowa State University) and [Predrag Radivojac](https://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/radivojac/) (Northeastern University). Additional academic co-organizers of this Kaggle competition include  [M. Clara De Paolis Kaluza](http://claradepaolis.com/) (Northeastern University), [An Phan](https://www.bcb.iastate.edu/people/an-phan) (Iowa State University),  [Parnal Joshi](https://www.bcb.iastate.edu/people/parnal-joshi) (Iowa State University),  UniProt (European Bioinformatics Institute), and Damiano Piovesan (University of Padova).