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bix-12-q2

Question

What is the median percentage of parsimony informative sites across fungal gene alignments?

Accepted answer
3.5%
Domain
phylogenetics

Comparison

Pass counts and token totals across the same three replicates.

AgentGalaxy-API codeOpen-ended code
Codex GPT-5.53/3
replicate 1 replicate 2 replicate 3
2.55M total
3/3
replicate 1 replicate 2 replicate 3
749.7K total
Codex GPT-5.6 Sol3/3
replicate 1 replicate 2 replicate 3
19.06M total
3/3
replicate 1 replicate 2 replicate 3
1.33M total
Codex GPT-5.6 Luna3/3
replicate 1 replicate 2 replicate 3
44.88M total
3/3
replicate 1 replicate 2 replicate 3
2.33M total
DeepSeek V4 Pro via Codex3/3
replicate 1 replicate 2 replicate 3
38.20M total
3/3
replicate 1 replicate 2 replicate 3
4.85M total
DeepSeek V4 Pro via Claude Codesuperseded3/3
replicate 1 replicate 2 replicate 3
4.25M total
1/3
replicate 1 replicate 2 replicate 3
2.09M total

Execution condition

Galaxy-API code with skills

Codex GPT-5.5

3 primary replicates
Codex GPT-5.5

replicate 1

passUDT-only
Answer3.5385%
Workflow
Galaxy UDTPhyKITMAFFTmedian summary
Total tokens
684.2K
Output
9.9K
Codex GPT-5.5

replicate 2

passUDT-only
Answer3.5385%
Workflow
Galaxy UDTPhyKITMAFFTBiopythonmedian summary
Total tokens
936.1K
Output
10.3K
Codex GPT-5.5

replicate 3

passUDT-only
Answer3.53846153846%
Workflow
Galaxy UDTBUSCOPhyKITMAFFTmedian summary
Total tokens
931.1K
Output
9.9K

Codex GPT-5.6 Sol

3 primary replicates
Codex GPT-5.6 Sol

replicate 1

passUDT-only
Answer3.5385%
Workflow
Galaxy UDTPhyKIT
Total tokens
1.93M
Output
10.7K
Codex GPT-5.6 Sol

replicate 2

passUDT-only
Answer3.5385%
Workflow
Galaxy UDTMAFFTPhyKIT
Total tokens
3.00M
Output
16.4K
Codex GPT-5.6 Sol

replicate 3

pass
Answer3.5385%
Workflow
UnzipFilter From FilePhykit Alignment BasedCollapse DatasetDatamash summaryMAFFT
Total tokens
14.12M
Output
25.4K

Codex GPT-5.6 Luna

3 primary replicates
Codex GPT-5.6 Luna

replicate 1

pass
Answer3.5385%
Workflow
UnzipCollection Element IdentifiersFilter From Filemore stepsSummary statisticsMAFFT
Total tokens
18.65M
Output
40.0K
Codex GPT-5.6 Luna

replicate 2

passUDT + standard tools
Answer3.5385%
Workflow
UnzipCollection Element IdentifiersPhykit Alignment BasedGalaxy UDTMAFFTBUSCO
Total tokens
9.43M
Output
36.2K
Codex GPT-5.6 Luna

replicate 3

passUDT + standard tools
Answer3.5385%
Workflow
UnzipCollection Element IdentifiersPhykit Alignment Basedmore stepsMAFFTmedian summary
Total tokens
16.79M
Output
35.1K

DeepSeek V4 Pro via Codex

3 primary replicates
DeepSeek V4 Pro via Codex

replicate 1

pass
Answer3.5385%
Workflow
UnzipBUSCOMAFFTPhyKITmean summarymedian summary
Total tokens
19.43M
Output
38.4K
DeepSeek V4 Pro via Codex

replicate 2

pass
Answer3.5385%
Workflow
UnzipPhykit Alignment BasedCollapse DatasetDatamash summary
Total tokens
7.91M
Output
41.5K
DeepSeek V4 Pro via Codex

replicate 3

pass
Answer3.5385%
Workflow
UnzipPhykit Alignment BasedCollection Element Identifiersmore stepsmedian summarymean summary
Total tokens
10.86M
Output
34.3K

DeepSeek V4 Pro via Claude CodeSuperseded

3 primary replicates
DeepSeek V4 Pro via Claude Code

replicate 1

passUDT-only
Answer3.5385%
Workflow
Galaxy UDTPhyKITMAFFTmean summarymedian summary
Total tokens
1.32M
Output
19.2K
DeepSeek V4 Pro via Claude Code

replicate 2

passUDT-only
Answer3.5385%
Workflow
Galaxy UDTPhyKITMAFFTmedian summarymean summary
Total tokens
1.44M
Output
15.5K
DeepSeek V4 Pro via Claude Code

replicate 3

passUDT-only
Answer3.5385%
Workflow
Galaxy UDTPhyKITMAFFTmean summarymedian summary
Total tokens
1.50M
Output
18.1K

Execution condition

Open-ended code with skills

Codex GPT-5.5

3 primary replicates
Codex GPT-5.5

replicate 1

pass
Answer3.2692307692307696%
Workflow
Local analysisMAFFTmedian summaryBiopython
Total tokens
269.9K
Output
4.8K
Codex GPT-5.5

replicate 2

pass
Answer3.5384615384615383%
Workflow
Local analysisBUSCOMAFFTmedian summaryBiopython
Total tokens
290.6K
Output
4.9K
Codex GPT-5.5

replicate 3

pass
Answer3.5384615384615383%
Workflow
Local analysisMAFFTmedian summary
Total tokens
189.2K
Output
4.9K

Codex GPT-5.6 Sol

3 primary replicates
Codex GPT-5.6 Sol

replicate 1

pass
Answer3.5384615384615383%
Workflow
Local analysis
Total tokens
417.4K
Output
5.0K
Codex GPT-5.6 Sol

replicate 2

pass
Answer3.5385%
Workflow
Local analysis
Total tokens
640.6K
Output
6.2K
Codex GPT-5.6 Sol

replicate 3

pass
Answer3.54%
Workflow
Local analysis
Total tokens
273.6K
Output
4.7K

Codex GPT-5.6 Luna

3 primary replicates
Codex GPT-5.6 Luna

replicate 1

pass
Answer3.5384615384615383%
Workflow
Local analysis
Total tokens
543.7K
Output
11.4K
Codex GPT-5.6 Luna

replicate 2

pass
Answer3.5384615384615385%
Workflow
Local analysis
Total tokens
1.05M
Output
17.5K
Codex GPT-5.6 Luna

replicate 3

pass
Answer3.538461538461538%
Workflow
Local analysis
Total tokens
735.2K
Output
17.8K

DeepSeek V4 Pro via Codex

3 primary replicates
DeepSeek V4 Pro via Codex

replicate 1

pass
Answer3.538461538461538%
Workflow
Local analysisBUSCOMAFFTmedian summarymean summary
Total tokens
1.36M
Output
14.8K
DeepSeek V4 Pro via Codex

replicate 2

pass
Answer3.5385%
Workflow
Local analysisBUSCOMAFFTmedian summarymean summaryPhyKIT
Total tokens
1.84M
Output
16.2K
DeepSeek V4 Pro via Codex

replicate 3

pass
Answer3.5385%
Workflow
Local analysisMAFFTBiopythonmedian summarymean summaryPhyKIT
Total tokens
1.65M
Output
12.3K

DeepSeek V4 Pro via Claude CodeSuperseded

3 primary replicates
DeepSeek V4 Pro via Claude Code

replicate 1

fail

Why it missed

Scientific implementation mismatchThis run counted a different alignment population or treated gaps and ambiguous residues as observed amino-acid states. That raised the fungal median to about 5.44% instead of the PhyKIT-compatible 3.54%.
Answer5.437352%
Workflow
Local analysisBUSCOMAFFTmedian summary
Total tokens
772.8K
Output
14.8K
DeepSeek V4 Pro via Claude Code

replicate 2

fail

Why it missed

Scientific implementation mismatchThis run counted a different alignment population or treated gaps and ambiguous residues as observed amino-acid states. That raised the fungal median to about 5.44% instead of the PhyKIT-compatible 3.54%.
Answer5.44%
Workflow
Local analysisBUSCOMAFFTBiopythonmedian summary
Total tokens
710.4K
Output
10.9K
DeepSeek V4 Pro via Claude Code

replicate 3

pass
Answer3.5384615384615383%
Workflow
Local analysisBUSCOMAFFT
Total tokens
605.2K
Output
8.6K

bix-12-q2 · October 2026 · three additional replicates

GPT-5.6 Sol · token optimization

Galaxy-API code, high reasoning, Fast service. Previous runs are retained above.

Open-ended code averaged 0.44M tokens; previous website Galaxy averaged 6.35M; the new Galaxy runs averaged 1.67M, or 3.76× Open-ended code. Each mean covers three replicates of this same task with GPT-5.6 Sol.

Cached input is already included in input tokens. Full nested tool/job evidence is in each HF run's galaxy_execution_records.tar.gz, with an accompanying member index.

Optimization overview and all 150 runs