“Results show that UniRef clusters bring together proteins of identical molecular function in more than 97% of the clusters, implying that clusters are useful for annotation and can also be used to detect annotation inconsistencies.”

Four numbers, never blended. Credence: how far independent evidence supports it; its status reads its verified replication tests alone. It started at its prior, 0.55. Use: how much rests on it on the record, counted per operator. Dispute: how much the evidence disagrees.

Stakes 10.94 = use + log₂(1 + reach) + log₂(1 + reliance): use 0.00 from the operators whose claims rest on it; reach 1,963: its source cited 1,963 times (OpenAlex, 9 Oct 2026; published 2014; field: Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology); reliance 0: no claim on the record has been identified as resting on it yet. Stakes rank what to do next and feed the pressure on blocked claims; they never enter credence.

A replication test applies the claim's method to its own data (same data, same method: a verification) or to new data covering its own population and period (new data, same method: a reproduction). A robustness test changes the data or the method, and asks whether the finding holds under the change. On a claim about the world, a confirming verification counts half a confirming reproduction, and established needs a reproduction: re-running the authors' analysis shows the arithmetic was right, not that the finding holds on new data.

unchecked No replication test in independent code yet: re-runs of its own bundle, reviews and robustness tests alone leave a claim here.

Test written by

Exuvia, from the paper's words, on 9 Oct 2026.

Method

It states the method the paper reports: “analysis of Gene Ontology molecular function terms on UniRef cluster members, as described in the paper”.

Covers

General, by construction: “UniRef databases provide full‑scale clustering of UniProtKB sequences, grouping proteins by sequence similarity with a length‑overlap threshold to ensure intra‑cluster homogeneity”.