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bix-55-q1

Question

How many single-copy orthologs are complete and present in all four proteomes after BUSCO analysis with the eukaryota_odb10 lineage?

Accepted answer
101
Domain
general

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
3.86M total
3/3
replicate 1 replicate 2 replicate 3
5.32M total
Codex GPT-5.6 Sol3/3
replicate 1 replicate 2 replicate 3
4.25M total
2/3
replicate 1 replicate 2 replicate 3
7.97M total
Codex GPT-5.6 Luna3/3
replicate 1 replicate 2 replicate 3
43.29M total
2/3
replicate 1 replicate 2 replicate 3
13.25M total
DeepSeek V4 Pro via Codex3/3
replicate 1 replicate 2 replicate 3
11.13M total
3/3
replicate 1 replicate 2 replicate 3
20.26M total
DeepSeek V4 Pro via Claude Codesuperseded3/3
replicate 1 replicate 2 replicate 3
6.08M total
2/3
replicate 1 replicate 2 replicate 3
11.41M total

Execution condition

Galaxy-API code with skills

Codex GPT-5.5

3 primary replicates
Codex GPT-5.5

replicate 1

passUDT-only
Answer101
Workflow
Galaxy UDTBUSCO
Total tokens
1.60M
Output
13.2K
Codex GPT-5.5

replicate 2

passUDT-only
Answer101
Workflow
Galaxy UDTBUSCO
Total tokens
938.3K
Output
9.3K
Codex GPT-5.5

replicate 3

passUDT-only
Answer101
Workflow
Galaxy UDTBUSCO
Total tokens
1.32M
Output
13.6K

Codex GPT-5.6 Sol

3 primary replicates
Codex GPT-5.6 Sol

replicate 1

passUDT-only
Answer101
Workflow
Galaxy UDTBUSCO
Total tokens
1.52M
Output
11.6K
Codex GPT-5.6 Sol

replicate 2

passUDT-only
Answer101
Workflow
Galaxy UDTBUSCO
Total tokens
1.51M
Output
10.2K

Codex GPT-5.6 Luna

3 primary replicates
Codex GPT-5.6 Luna

replicate 1

pass
Answer101
Workflow
BuscoFilter TabularTp Grep ToolSelect columnsJoin datasets
Total tokens
6.05M
Output
24.2K
Codex GPT-5.6 Luna

replicate 2

passUDT + standard tools
Answer101
Workflow
Galaxy UDTFilter TabularComp1BUSCO
Total tokens
30.06M
Output
49.5K
Codex GPT-5.6 Luna

replicate 3

passUDT + standard tools
Answer101
Workflow
Galaxy UDTFilter TabularTp Grep ToolTp Easyjoin ToolBUSCO
Total tokens
7.18M
Output
33.3K

DeepSeek V4 Pro via Codex

3 primary replicates
DeepSeek V4 Pro via Codex

replicate 1

passUDT-only
Answer101
Workflow
Galaxy UDTBUSCO
Total tokens
3.23M
Output
24.0K
DeepSeek V4 Pro via Codex

replicate 2

pass
Answer101
Workflow
Busco
Total tokens
1.23M
Output
11.8K
DeepSeek V4 Pro via Codex

replicate 3

pass
Answer101
Workflow
BuscoFilter TabularSelect columnsComp1
Total tokens
6.67M
Output
35.1K

DeepSeek V4 Pro via Claude CodeSuperseded

3 primary replicates
DeepSeek V4 Pro via Claude Code

replicate 1

pass
Answer101
Workflow
Busco
Total tokens
1.49M
Output
16.8K
DeepSeek V4 Pro via Claude Code

replicate 2

pass
Answer101
Workflow
Busco
Total tokens
1.94M
Output
18.6K
DeepSeek V4 Pro via Claude Code

replicate 3

passUDT + standard tools
Answer101
Workflow
Galaxy UDTBusco
Total tokens
2.65M
Output
34.5K

Execution condition

Open-ended code with skills

Codex GPT-5.5

3 primary replicates
Codex GPT-5.5

replicate 1

pass
Answer101
Workflow
Local analysisBUSCO
Total tokens
1.50M
Output
12.3K
Codex GPT-5.5

replicate 2

pass
Answer101
Workflow
Local analysisBUSCO
Total tokens
2.18M
Output
13.9K
Codex GPT-5.5

replicate 3

pass
Answer101
Workflow
Local analysisBUSCO
Total tokens
1.64M
Output
10.9K

Codex GPT-5.6 Sol

3 primary replicates
Codex GPT-5.6 Sol

replicate 1

fail

Why it missed

BUSCO version changed one classificationBUSCO 5.7.1 classified 129 chicken markers as complete single-copy and gave a four-way intersection of 100. The runs reproducing the accepted 101 used a different BUSCO release and classified one additional shared marker as single-copy.
Answer100
Workflow
Local analysis
Total tokens
2.12M
Output
7.1K
Codex GPT-5.6 Sol

replicate 2

pass
Answer101
Workflow
Local analysis
Total tokens
2.67M
Output
8.6K
Codex GPT-5.6 Sol

replicate 3

pass
Answer101
Workflow
Local analysis
Total tokens
3.18M
Output
9.2K

Codex GPT-5.6 Luna

3 primary replicates
Codex GPT-5.6 Luna

replicate 1

pass
Answer101
Workflow
Local analysis
Total tokens
3.79M
Output
11.8K
Codex GPT-5.6 Luna

replicate 2

pass
Answer101
Workflow
Local analysis
Total tokens
3.31M
Output
18.4K
Codex GPT-5.6 Luna

replicate 3

fail

Why it missed

BUSCO version changed one classificationBUSCO 5.7.1 classified 129 chicken markers as complete single-copy and gave a four-way intersection of 100. The runs reproducing the accepted 101 used a different BUSCO release and classified one additional shared marker as single-copy.
Answer100
Workflow
Local analysis
Total tokens
6.15M
Output
17.0K

DeepSeek V4 Pro via Codex

3 primary replicates
DeepSeek V4 Pro via Codex

replicate 1

pass
Answer101
Workflow
Local analysisBUSCOBiopython
Total tokens
5.63M
Output
25.9K
DeepSeek V4 Pro via Codex

replicate 2

pass
Answer101
Workflow
Local analysisBUSCOscikit-learnBiopython
Total tokens
7.74M
Output
35.1K
DeepSeek V4 Pro via Codex

replicate 3

pass
Answer101
Workflow
Local analysisBUSCOscikit-learnBiopython
Total tokens
6.89M
Output
42.4K

DeepSeek V4 Pro via Claude CodeSuperseded

3 primary replicates
DeepSeek V4 Pro via Claude Code

replicate 1

pass
Answer101
Workflow
Local analysisBUSCOBiopython
Total tokens
6.15M
Output
54.0K
DeepSeek V4 Pro via Claude Code

replicate 2

fail

Why it missed

Scientific implementation substitutionThis run replaced BUSCO with a direct pyhmmer approximation and classified only 64 genes as complete single-copy in all four proteomes. BUSCO with eukaryota_odb10 gives the accepted intersection of 101.
Answer64
Workflow
Local analysisBUSCO
Total tokens
1.84M
Output
21.5K
DeepSeek V4 Pro via Claude Code

replicate 3

pass
Answer101
Workflow
Local analysisBUSCOBiopython
Total tokens
3.42M
Output
33.1K

bix-55-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 2.66M tokens; previous website Galaxy averaged 1.42M; the new Galaxy runs averaged 0.79M, or 0.30× 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