rewirebio.iobenchmarks
Evidence and investigation

Contested results

Where one study disagrees with what other studies report for the same models, and what we are doing to resolve each case.

These are automatic leads, not findings of error. Each release, a check compares how every study ranks the models it shares with other studies. It flags a study that reverses the order the others agree on, or whose gap to a shared reference model lies well outside theirs. Different tasks, populations or metrics often explain a flag.

A flag never hides a result. Flagged results stay in every table, page and download, marked Contested. A result is withheld only when a reviewer marks it disputed.

How the check works, and how each follow-up is recorded: discrepancies between studies.

In this release

  • 121open
  • 5settled
  • 7resolved
  • 1medium severity
  • 132low severity

Release 2026-11-02-a7f03c9e55a5 · 133 findings in all · rules version 4

Findings

Status: All · Open · Settled · Resolved

Severity: All · Medium · Low

State: All · Not yet reviewed · Under investigation · Explained · Confirmed error · Not a real disagreement

Showing findings that compare ESM-2. All models

2 findings match, most severe first.

ESM-2 and Tranception: ProteinGym: Large-Scale Benchmarks for Protein Fitness Prediction and Design and Livesey and Marsh 2025, Genome Biology 26:104 (Europe PMC full text XML) disagree

  • Low severity
  • Not yet reviewed
  • two-study-conflict
  • different-task

ProteinGym: Large-Scale Benchmarks for Protein Fitness Prediction and Design ranks Tranception above ESM-2 in 16 of 18 comparisons; Livesey and Marsh 2025, Genome Biology 26:104 (Europe PMC full text XML) ranks ESM-2 above Tranception in 7 of 7 comparisons. No other study gives a verdict, so neither is the outlier.

2 papers rank ESM-2 above Tranception in 9 of their 26 comparisons and Tranception higher in 16; 1 is a tie. Of those papers, ProteinGym ranks Tranception higher on its own (16 of 19).

Comparisons in which each paper scores ESM-2 or Tranception higher2 other papers: ESM-2 higher in 9, Tranception higher in 16, 1 tie.2 other papers9 ESM-2 higher91 tie16 Tranception higher16
ESM-2 higherTieTranception higher
Compared
ESM-2, Tranception

Not reviewed yet.

ESM-2 and CADD: Genome modelling and design across all domains of life with Evo 2: Supplementary Data 1, human variant effect prediction results (Nature 2026) and Livesey and Marsh 2025, Genome Biology 26:104 (Europe PMC full text XML) disagree

  • Low severity
  • Not yet reviewed
  • two-study-conflict
  • different-task

Genome modelling and design across all domains of life with Evo 2: Supplementary Data 1, human variant effect prediction results (Nature 2026) ranks CADD above ESM-2 in 14 of 14 comparisons; Livesey and Marsh 2025, Genome Biology 26:104 (Europe PMC full text XML) ranks ESM-2 above CADD in 6 of 7 comparisons. No other study gives a verdict, so neither is the outlier.

2 papers rank ESM-2 above CADD in 6 of their 21 comparisons and CADD higher in 15. Of those papers, Genome modelling and design across all… ranks CADD higher on its own (14 of 14).

Comparisons in which each paper scores ESM-2 or CADD higher2 other papers: ESM-2 higher in 6, CADD higher in 15, 0 ties.2 other papers6 ESM-2 higher615 CADD higher15
ESM-2 higherTieCADD higher
Compared
ESM-2, CADD

Not reviewed yet.