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We develop a novel method for predicting the inter-residue contacts of a protein from evolutionary information obtained from the alignment of multiple sequences. Our method is based on information theory, where we use conditional mutual information so that the spurious correlations coming from indirect effects are removed. The benchmark test shows better performance than the previous method using...