Bio-NLP and information extraction and retrieval in biology

• KDD cup: Information extraction from biomedical articles.
• TREC Genomics track 2003: ad hoc retrieval and information extraction tasks in biology. 
• BioCreative I: Named entity recognition of genes and proteins and annotation retrieval and prediction.
• JNLPBA: Named entity recognition of bio-enities.
• TREC Genomics track 2004: ad hoc retrieval and text categorization tasks in the biology domain.
• TREC Genomics track 2005: ad hoc retrieval and text categorization tasks in the biology domain.
• LLL05 challenge: Genic Interaction Extraction Challenge.

Bioinformatics/computational biology

• CASP: Critical Assessment of Protein Structure Prediction, community-wide effort to determine the state of the art of protein structure prediction methods
• CAPRI: Critical Assessment of PRediction of Interactions, community wide experiment on the comparative evaluation of protein-protein docking for structure prediction. 
• CAMDA: Critical Assessment of Microarray Data Analysis, evaluation of techniques for microarray data analysis.
• GASP: Genome Annotation Assessment Project, contest for the evaluation of genome bioinformatics techniques
• GAW: Genome Access Workshop, evaluation of statistical genetics approaches.
• PTC: Predictive Toxicology Challenge, to evaluate computational toxicology approaches.

Information extraction/retrieval and text mining

• TREC: Evaluation of information retrieval and document classification approaches at the Text REtrieval Conference 
• MUC: Evaluation of information extraction approaches at the Message Understanding Conferences 
• RTE: Recognising Textual Entailment Challenges.