The prediction gets more reliable if predicted secondary structure is provided. The reason for not including the secondary structure prediction in the service is that it takes approx 5 minutes to do the prediction. The best secondary structure prediction method is PSIPRED.The prediction gets more reliable and performance increase with about 15% if the secondary structure is provided.
Citation:Can correct protein models be identified? Björn Wallner and Arne Elofsson (2003). Protein Sci. 12(5):1073-1086.