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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 PHACTboost. All models

3 findings match, most severe first.

MutScore and PHACTboost: Livesey and Marsh 2025, Genome Biology 26:104 (Europe PMC full text XML) and An openly licensed benchmark and per-gene calibration map for missense pathogenicity predictors on activating cancer drivers disagree

  • Low severity
  • Not yet reviewed
  • two-study-conflict
  • unknown

Livesey and Marsh 2025, Genome Biology 26:104 (Europe PMC full text XML) ranks PHACTboost above MutScore in 7 of 7 comparisons; An openly licensed benchmark and per-gene calibration map for missense pathogenicity predictors on activating cancer drivers ranks MutScore above PHACTboost in 5 of 5 comparisons. No other study gives a verdict, so neither is the outlier.

2 papers rank MutScore above PHACTboost in 5 of their 13 comparisons and PHACTboost higher in 7; 1 is a tie. Of those papers, Livesey and Marsh 2025 ranks PHACTboost higher on its own (7 of 7).

Comparisons in which each paper scores MutScore or PHACTboost higher2 other papers: MutScore higher in 5, PHACTboost higher in 7, 1 tie.2 other papers5 MutScore higher51 tie7 PHACTboost higher7
MutScore higherTiePHACTboost higher
Compared
MutScore, PHACTboost

Not reviewed yet.

PHACTboost and BayesDel: Livesey and Marsh 2025, Genome Biology 26:104 (Europe PMC full text XML) and An openly licensed benchmark and per-gene calibration map for missense pathogenicity predictors on activating cancer drivers disagree

  • Low severity
  • Not yet reviewed
  • two-study-conflict
  • unknown

Livesey and Marsh 2025, Genome Biology 26:104 (Europe PMC full text XML) ranks PHACTboost above BayesDel in 7 of 7 comparisons; An openly licensed benchmark and per-gene calibration map for missense pathogenicity predictors on activating cancer drivers ranks BayesDel above PHACTboost in 4 of 5 comparisons. No other study gives a verdict, so neither is the outlier.

2 papers rank PHACTboost above BayesDel in 8 of their 13 comparisons and BayesDel higher in 4; 1 is a tie. Of those papers, An openly licensed benchmark… ranks BayesDel higher on its own (4 of 6).

Comparisons in which each paper scores PHACTboost or BayesDel higher2 other papers: PHACTboost higher in 8, BayesDel higher in 4, 1 tie.2 other papers8 PHACTboost higher81 tie4 BayesDel higher4
PHACTboost higherTieBayesDel higher
Compared
PHACTboost, BayesDel

Not reviewed yet.

ClinPred and PHACTboost: Livesey and Marsh 2025, Genome Biology 26:104 (Europe PMC full text XML) and An openly licensed benchmark and per-gene calibration map for missense pathogenicity predictors on activating cancer drivers disagree

  • Low severity
  • Not yet reviewed
  • two-study-conflict
  • unknown

Livesey and Marsh 2025, Genome Biology 26:104 (Europe PMC full text XML) ranks PHACTboost above ClinPred in 6 of 6 comparisons; An openly licensed benchmark and per-gene calibration map for missense pathogenicity predictors on activating cancer drivers ranks ClinPred above PHACTboost in 6 of 6 comparisons. No other study gives a verdict, so neither is the outlier.

2 papers rank ClinPred above PHACTboost in 6 of their 13 comparisons and PHACTboost higher in 6; 1 is a tie. Of those papers, Livesey and Marsh 2025 ranks PHACTboost higher on its own (6 of 7).

Comparisons in which each paper scores ClinPred or PHACTboost higher2 other papers: ClinPred higher in 6, PHACTboost higher in 6, 1 tie.2 other papers6 ClinPred higher61 tie6 PHACTboost higher6
ClinPred higherTiePHACTboost higher
Compared
ClinPred, PHACTboost

Not reviewed yet.