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bix-16-q4

Question

Using a Spearman Rank correlation test and Benjamini-Hochberg multi-test correction, what percentage of genes show a statistically significant correlation between expression and essentiality, in either direction?

Accepted answer
(20,25)
Domain
crispr dependency

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
1.89M total
3/3
replicate 1 replicate 2 replicate 3
1.35M total
Codex GPT-5.6 Sol3/3
replicate 1 replicate 2 replicate 3
2.95M total
3/3
replicate 1 replicate 2 replicate 3
852.2K total
Codex GPT-5.6 Luna3/3
replicate 1 replicate 2 replicate 3
6.07M total
3/3
replicate 1 replicate 2 replicate 3
2.94M total
DeepSeek V4 Pro via Codex3/3
replicate 1 replicate 2 replicate 3
5.78M total
2/3
replicate 1 replicate 2 replicate 3
2.15M total
DeepSeek V4 Pro via Claude Codesuperseded3/3
replicate 1 replicate 2 replicate 3
3.58M total
2/3
replicate 1 replicate 2 replicate 3
2.42M total

Execution condition

Galaxy-API code with skills

Codex GPT-5.5

3 primary replicates
Codex GPT-5.5

replicate 1

pass
Answer21.803575469563249%
Workflow
Spearman correlation
Total tokens
495.3K
Output
4.3K
Codex GPT-5.5

replicate 2

pass
Answer21.803575469563249%
Workflow
Spearman correlation
Total tokens
799.7K
Output
4.7K
Codex GPT-5.5

replicate 3

pass
Answer21.803575469563249%
Workflow
Spearman correlation
Total tokens
595.4K
Output
5.4K

Codex GPT-5.6 Sol

3 primary replicates
Codex GPT-5.6 Sol

replicate 1

pass
Answer21.803575469563249%
Workflow
Spearman correlation
Total tokens
1.57M
Output
5.3K
Codex GPT-5.6 Sol

replicate 2

pass
Answer21.803575469563249%
Workflow
Spearman correlation
Total tokens
734.9K
Output
4.6K
Codex GPT-5.6 Sol

replicate 3

pass
Answer21.803575469563249%
Workflow
Spearman correlation
Total tokens
640.5K
Output
4.2K

Codex GPT-5.6 Luna

3 primary replicates
Codex GPT-5.6 Luna

replicate 1

pass
Answer21.803575469563249%
Workflow
Spearman correlation
Total tokens
3.07M
Output
19.8K
Codex GPT-5.6 Luna

replicate 2

pass
Answer21.803575469563249%
Workflow
Spearman correlation
Total tokens
1.46M
Output
9.7K
Codex GPT-5.6 Luna

replicate 3

pass
Answer21.803575469563249%
Workflow
Spearman correlation
Total tokens
1.53M
Output
10.7K

DeepSeek V4 Pro via Codex

3 primary replicates
DeepSeek V4 Pro via Codex

replicate 1

pass
Answer21.803575469563249%
Workflow
Galaxy via BioBlendSpearman correlation
Total tokens
1.30M
Output
13.4K
DeepSeek V4 Pro via Codex

replicate 2

pass
Answer21.803575469563249%
Workflow
Galaxy historySpearman correlation
Total tokens
2.30M
Output
12.2K
DeepSeek V4 Pro via Codex

replicate 3

pass
Answer21.803575469563249%
Workflow
Galaxy via BioBlendSpearman correlation
Total tokens
2.19M
Output
15.2K

DeepSeek V4 Pro via Claude CodeSuperseded

3 primary replicates
DeepSeek V4 Pro via Claude Code

replicate 1

passUDT-only
Answer21.806765%
Workflow
Galaxy UDTSpearman correlationSciPyscikit-learn
Total tokens
1.53M
Output
29.7K
DeepSeek V4 Pro via Claude Code

replicate 2

pass
Answer21.803575469563249%
Workflow
Spearman correlation
Total tokens
1.03M
Output
8.4K
DeepSeek V4 Pro via Claude Code

replicate 3

pass
Answer21.803575469563249%
Workflow
Spearman correlation
Total tokens
1.02M
Output
11.3K

Execution condition

Open-ended code with skills

Codex GPT-5.5

3 primary replicates
Codex GPT-5.5

replicate 1

pass
Answer21.803575469563249%
Workflow
Local analysisSciPystatsmodelsSpearman correlation
Total tokens
465.9K
Output
8.7K
Codex GPT-5.5

replicate 2

pass
Answer21.8035754696%
Workflow
Local analysisSciPystatsmodelsSpearman correlation
Total tokens
465.5K
Output
6.2K
Codex GPT-5.5

replicate 3

pass
Answer21.8035754695632%
Workflow
Local analysisSciPystatsmodelsSpearman correlation
Total tokens
414.9K
Output
11.0K

Codex GPT-5.6 Sol

3 primary replicates
Codex GPT-5.6 Sol

replicate 1

pass
Answer21.669278996865206%
Workflow
Local analysis
Total tokens
339.3K
Output
7.1K
Codex GPT-5.6 Sol

replicate 2

pass
Answer21.69%
Workflow
Local analysis
Total tokens
237.0K
Output
6.8K
Codex GPT-5.6 Sol

replicate 3

pass
Answer21.80357546956325%
Workflow
Local analysis
Total tokens
276.0K
Output
6.9K

Codex GPT-5.6 Luna

3 primary replicates
Codex GPT-5.6 Luna

replicate 1

pass
Answer21.80357546956325%
Workflow
Local analysis
Total tokens
697.5K
Output
16.6K
Codex GPT-5.6 Luna

replicate 2

pass
Answer21.80357546956325%
Workflow
Local analysis
Total tokens
1.11M
Output
21.2K
Codex GPT-5.6 Luna

replicate 3

pass
Answer21.80357546956325%
Workflow
Local analysis
Total tokens
1.13M
Output
13.9K

DeepSeek V4 Pro via Codex

3 primary replicates
DeepSeek V4 Pro via Codex

replicate 1

pass
Answer21.80357546956325%
Workflow
Local analysisSciPystatsmodelsscikit-learnmean summarySpearman correlation
Total tokens
829.3K
Output
19.7K
DeepSeek V4 Pro via Codex

replicate 2

fail

Evaluation status

Manual review pendingThe evaluator marked this answer incorrect. The answer, workflow summary, usage, and available run records are linked, but a manual root-cause audit has not yet been added.
Answer6.885041864675266%
Workflow
Local analysisSciPystatsmodelsmedian summarySpearman correlation
Total tokens
650.6K
Output
23.3K
DeepSeek V4 Pro via Codex

replicate 3

pass
Answer21.80357546956325%
Workflow
Local analysisSciPystatsmodelsscikit-learnSpearman correlationmedian summary
Total tokens
672.9K
Output
17.6K

DeepSeek V4 Pro via Claude CodeSuperseded

3 primary replicates
DeepSeek V4 Pro via Claude Code

replicate 1

fail

Why it missed

Statistical implementation errorThis run tested the same 17,676 genes but its p-value or Benjamini-Hochberg implementation retained only 103 genes, or 0.58%. The verified SciPy and statsmodels calculation retains 3,854 genes, or 21.80%.
Answer0.582711%
Workflow
Local analysisSciPystatsmodels
Total tokens
707.6K
Output
12.5K
DeepSeek V4 Pro via Claude Code

replicate 2

pass
Answer21.8036%
Workflow
Local analysisSciPystatsmodelsmean summarySpearman correlation
Total tokens
1.10M
Output
19.6K
DeepSeek V4 Pro via Claude Code

replicate 3

pass
Answer21.8036%
Workflow
Local analysisSciPystatsmodels
Total tokens
614.4K
Output
8.3K

bix-16-q4 · 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 0.28M tokens; previous website Galaxy averaged 0.98M; the new Galaxy runs averaged 0.51M, or 1.79× 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