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bix-38-q1

Question

What is the fold-change in median tree length between fungi and animals after calculating tree lengths with PhyKIT?

Accepted answer
2x larger in fungi
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
3.42M total
3/3
replicate 1 replicate 2 replicate 3
1.42M total
Codex GPT-5.6 Sol3/3
replicate 1 replicate 2 replicate 3
4.94M total
3/3
replicate 1 replicate 2 replicate 3
1.45M total
Codex GPT-5.6 Luna3/3
replicate 1 replicate 2 replicate 3
11.52M total
3/3
replicate 1 replicate 2 replicate 3
2.85M total
DeepSeek V4 Pro via Codex3/3
replicate 1 replicate 2 replicate 3
3.50M total
3/3
replicate 1 replicate 2 replicate 3
5.39M total
DeepSeek V4 Pro via Claude Codesuperseded3/3
replicate 1 replicate 2 replicate 3
3.97M total
3/3
replicate 1 replicate 2 replicate 3
2.88M total

Execution condition

Galaxy-API code with skills

Codex GPT-5.5

3 primary replicates
Codex GPT-5.5

replicate 1

pass
Answer2.177508966875307686897812786
Workflow
Phykit MetricsBUSCOmedian summary
Total tokens
1.38M
Output
8.0K
Codex GPT-5.5

replicate 2

pass
Answer2.177508966875308
Workflow
Phykit Metricsmedian summary
Total tokens
986.7K
Output
8.1K
Codex GPT-5.5

replicate 3

pass
Answer2.17750896688
Workflow
Phykit Metricsmedian summary
Total tokens
1.05M
Output
8.7K

Codex GPT-5.6 Sol

3 primary replicates
Codex GPT-5.6 Sol

replicate 1

pass
Answer2.18
Workflow
Phykit Metricsmedian summary
Total tokens
1.61M
Output
8.5K
Codex GPT-5.6 Sol

replicate 2

pass
Answer2.1775
Workflow
Phykit Metricsmedian summary
Total tokens
1.55M
Output
7.4K
Codex GPT-5.6 Sol

replicate 3

pass
Answer2.177508966875308
Workflow
Phykit Metricsmedian summary
Total tokens
1.78M
Output
8.2K

Codex GPT-5.6 Luna

3 primary replicates
Codex GPT-5.6 Luna

replicate 1

pass
Answer2.1775
Workflow
Phykit MetricsDatamash summary
Total tokens
5.82M
Output
20.7K
Codex GPT-5.6 Luna

replicate 2

pass
Answer2.1775089668753077
Workflow
Phykit MetricsBUSCOmedian summary
Total tokens
2.97M
Output
15.4K
Codex GPT-5.6 Luna

replicate 3

pass
Answer2.1775089668753077
Workflow
Phykit Metricsmedian summary
Total tokens
2.72M
Output
18.7K

DeepSeek V4 Pro via Codex

3 primary replicates
DeepSeek V4 Pro via Codex

replicate 1

pass
Answer2.1775
Workflow
Phykit Metricsmedian summarymean summary
Total tokens
2.06M
Output
21.7K
DeepSeek V4 Pro via Codex

replicate 2

pass
Answer2.177508967
Workflow
Phykit Metricsmedian summary
Total tokens
679.1K
Output
7.6K
DeepSeek V4 Pro via Codex

replicate 3

pass
Answer2.17750896687531
Workflow
Phykit Metrics
Total tokens
758.8K
Output
11.1K

DeepSeek V4 Pro via Claude CodeSuperseded

3 primary replicates
DeepSeek V4 Pro via Claude Code

replicate 1

pass
Answer2.1775
Workflow
Phykit Metrics
Total tokens
1.09M
Output
12.2K
DeepSeek V4 Pro via Claude Code

replicate 2

pass
Answer2.1775
Workflow
Phykit Metricsmedian summaryfold-change calculation
Total tokens
953.5K
Output
14.9K
DeepSeek V4 Pro via Claude Code

replicate 3

pass
Answer2.177509
Workflow
Phykit Metricsmedian summaryfold-change calculationmean summary
Total tokens
1.92M
Output
17.6K

Execution condition

Open-ended code with skills

Codex GPT-5.5

3 primary replicates
Codex GPT-5.5

replicate 1

pass
Answer2.1775089668753077
Workflow
Local analysisPhyKITNewick analysis
Total tokens
400.0K
Output
4.5K
Codex GPT-5.5

replicate 2

pass
Answer2.177508966875308
Workflow
Local analysisPhyKITmedian summary
Total tokens
453.3K
Output
4.2K
Codex GPT-5.5

replicate 3

pass
Answer2.17750896688
Workflow
Local analysisPhyKITMAFFTmedian summary
Total tokens
563.8K
Output
5.3K

Codex GPT-5.6 Sol

3 primary replicates
Codex GPT-5.6 Sol

replicate 1

pass
Answer2.1775089668753077
Workflow
Local analysis
Total tokens
484.0K
Output
5.9K
Codex GPT-5.6 Sol

replicate 2

pass
Answer2.18
Workflow
Local analysis
Total tokens
326.8K
Output
3.9K
Codex GPT-5.6 Sol

replicate 3

pass
Answer2.18
Workflow
Local analysis
Total tokens
641.9K
Output
5.9K

Codex GPT-5.6 Luna

3 primary replicates
Codex GPT-5.6 Luna

replicate 1

pass
Answer2.1775089668753078
Workflow
Local analysis
Total tokens
879.5K
Output
8.8K
Codex GPT-5.6 Luna

replicate 2

pass
Answer2.177508966875308
Workflow
Local analysis
Total tokens
1.27M
Output
8.8K
Codex GPT-5.6 Luna

replicate 3

pass
Answer2.177508966875308
Workflow
Local analysis
Total tokens
693.8K
Output
9.9K

DeepSeek V4 Pro via Codex

3 primary replicates
DeepSeek V4 Pro via Codex

replicate 1

pass
Answer2.177508966875308
Workflow
Local analysisBUSCOIQ-TREEMAFFTPhyKITmedian summary
Total tokens
1.26M
Output
15.1K
DeepSeek V4 Pro via Codex

replicate 2

pass
Answer2.1775
Workflow
Local analysisIQ-TREEPhyKITBiopythonSciPymedian summary
Total tokens
1.54M
Output
12.8K
DeepSeek V4 Pro via Codex

replicate 3

pass
Answer2.177509
Workflow
Local analysisBUSCOIQ-TREEMAFFTPhyKITNewick analysis
Total tokens
2.59M
Output
20.4K

DeepSeek V4 Pro via Claude CodeSuperseded

3 primary replicates
DeepSeek V4 Pro via Claude Code

replicate 1

pass
Answer2.177509
Workflow
Local analysisBUSCOPhyKITmedian summaryNewick analysisMAFFT
Total tokens
1.01M
Output
8.2K
DeepSeek V4 Pro via Claude Code

replicate 2

pass
Answer2.177509
Workflow
Local analysisPhyKITBUSCOMAFFTmedian summaryfold-change calculation
Total tokens
733.8K
Output
7.2K
DeepSeek V4 Pro via Claude Code

replicate 3

pass
Answer2.177508966875308
Workflow
Local analysisBUSCOPhyKITMAFFTmedian summaryNewick analysis
Total tokens
1.13M
Output
10.4K

bix-38-q1 · 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 0.48M tokens; previous website Galaxy averaged 1.65M; the new Galaxy runs averaged 0.51M, or 1.04× 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