MPC and REVEL: Livesey and Marsh 2025, Genome Biology 26:104 (Europe PMC full text XML) reverses the order
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Livesey and Marsh 2025, Genome Biology 26:104 (Europe PMC full text XML) ranks REVEL above MPC in 7 of 7 comparisons; other studies rank MPC above REVEL in 12 of 15.
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Which studies agree
3 papers rank MPC above REVEL in 12 of their 17 comparisons and REVEL higher in 3; 2 are ties. Of those papers, ProteinGym AMFR assay-level Spearman… ranks REVEL higher on its own (1 of 1). Livesey and Marsh 2025 ranks REVEL above MPC in all 7 of its comparisons.
- Rank MPC higher (1): Comprehensive assessment…
- Rank REVEL higher (2): Livesey and Marsh 2025 (disagrees), ProteinGym AMFR assay-level Spearman…
- Mixed (1): An openly licensed benchmark…
Each paper sits where at least two thirds of its comparisons point; Mixed means neither model reaches two thirds. The larger, outlined dot is the paper that disagrees.
| Paper | Role | Ranks MPC higher | Ranks REVEL higher | Ties |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Livesey and Marsh 2025, Genome Biology 26:104 (Europe PMC full text XML) and 1 more record · DOI | Disagrees | 0 | 7 | 0 |
| Comprehensive assessment of computational algorithms in predicting cancer driver mutations and 4 more records · DOI | Agrees | 10 | 0 | 0 |
| An openly licensed benchmark and per-gene calibration map for missense pathogenicity predictors on activating cancer drivers and 1 more record · DOI | Agrees | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| ProteinGym AMFR assay-level Spearman comparison and 4 more records · Repository | Agrees | 0 | 1 | 0 |
Comparisons in Livesey and Marsh 2025 (7)
| Protocol | Dataset | Metric | MPC | REVEL | Higher |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Livesey and Marsh 2025 clinical benchmark: pairwise AUROC win rate, ClinVar pathogenic versus gnomAD missense | Livesey and Marsh 2025 clinical set: ClinVar pathogenic versus gnomAD v4.1 missense (819 proteins) | Pairwise win rate (average pairwise win rate against all other VEPs, per-protein AUROC on shared variants, ClinVar P/LP versus gnomAD v4.1 missense, proteins with at least 10 of each), percent | 45 | 76 | REVEL |
| Livesey and Marsh 2025 DMS benchmark: pairwise |Spearman| win rate, all 36 DMS sets | Livesey and Marsh 2025 human DMS benchmark set (36 proteins) | Pairwise win rate (average pairwise win rate against all other VEPs, |Spearman| with DMS on shared variants, 36 human DMS sets), percent | 53.6 | 66.1 | REVEL |
| Livesey and Marsh 2025 DMS benchmark: pairwise |Spearman| win rate, all 36 DMS sets | Livesey and Marsh 2025 human DMS benchmark set (36 proteins) | Pairwise win rate (average pairwise win rate against the five top-ranked VEPs (column top_5_winrate; the five are not listed in the table), |Spearman| with DMS on shared variants, 36 human DMS sets), percent | 11.6 | 13.2 | REVEL |
| Livesey and Marsh 2025 DMS benchmark: pairwise |Spearman| win rate, direct assays only | Livesey and Marsh 2025 human DMS benchmark set (36 proteins) | Pairwise win rate (average pairwise win rate against all other VEPs, |Spearman| with DMS on shared variants, direct DMS assays only), percent | 57.2 | 65.6 | REVEL |
| Livesey and Marsh 2025 DMS benchmark: pairwise |Spearman| win rate, indirect assays only | Livesey and Marsh 2025 human DMS benchmark set (36 proteins) | Pairwise win rate (average pairwise win rate against all other VEPs, |Spearman| with DMS on shared variants, indirect DMS assays only), percent | 50.7 | 66.3 | REVEL |
| Livesey and Marsh 2025 DMS benchmark: pairwise |Spearman| win rate, SNV-accessible substitutions only | Livesey and Marsh 2025 human DMS benchmark set (36 proteins) | Pairwise win rate (average pairwise win rate against all other VEPs, |Spearman| with DMS on shared variants, SNV-accessible substitutions only), percent | 53.6 | 66.1 | REVEL |
| Livesey and Marsh 2025 DMS benchmark: pairwise |Spearman| win rate, SNV-accessible substitutions with gaps filled | Livesey and Marsh 2025 human DMS benchmark set (36 proteins) | Pairwise win rate (average pairwise win rate against all other VEPs, |Spearman| with DMS, SNV-accessible substitutions, missing predictions filled with the VEP's most benign score), percent | 54.8 | 67.5 | REVEL |
Comparisons in Comprehensive assessment… (10)
Comparisons in An openly licensed benchmark… (6)
Comparisons in ProteinGym AMFR assay-level Spearman… (1)
| Protocol | Dataset | Metric | MPC | REVEL | Higher |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ProteinGym clinical substitutions, supervised predictors, average AUC (commit 144fe22) | ProteinGym clinical substitution benchmark at commit 144fe22 | AUROC (ProteinGym clinical substitutions, supervised clinical predictors, Average_AUC over proteins), unitless | 0.881 | 0.928 | REVEL |
What disagrees
- Other studies
- rank MPC above REVEL in 12 of 15 comparisons
- This study
- ranks REVEL above MPC in 7 of 7 comparisons
- Compared
- MPC, REVEL
- Study that disagrees
- Livesey and Marsh 2025, Genome Biology 26:104 (Europe PMC full text XML), Livesey and Marsh 2025, Supplementary Material 2 (Tables S1-S8)
- Other studies
12 studies
Comprehensive assessment of computational algorithms in predicting cancer driver mutations, Chen et al. 2020, Additional file 10: Performance metrics of 17 algorithms, default categories, benchmark 2 (OncoKB), Chen et al. 2020, Additional file 21: Performance metrics of 33 algorithms, median-score threshold, benchmark 5 (cell viability), Chen et al. 2020, Additional file 22: Performance metrics of 17 algorithms, default categories, benchmark 5 (cell viability), Chen et al. 2020, Additional file 9: Performance metrics of 33 algorithms, median-score threshold, benchmark 2 (OncoKB), An openly licensed benchmark and per-gene calibration map for missense pathogenicity predictors on activating cancer drivers, OncoCal repository, tables/tool_performance.tsv (per-tool AUROC and AUPRC by gene role), ProteinGym AMFR assay-level Spearman comparison, ProteinGym clinical supervised substitutions AUC summary at commit 144fe22, ProteinGym clinical zero-shot indels AUC summary at commit 144fe22, ProteinGym clinical zero-shot substitutions AUC summary at commit 144fe22, ProteinGym zero-shot DMS substitutions Spearman summary at commit 144fe22- Rule
- Ordering reversal; different tasks across studies
- Model identity
- Matched across studies partly through links not yet reviewed
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