The Peptide Daily Brief

What changed. What matters. What the evidence can support.

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Research lab

Lab notes

Our own exploratory analysis of published measurements, reported daily, including unchanged, skipped and degraded runs. These are not verified claims and are kept separate from the Daily Brief above. We publish failures and inconclusive results alongside wins, and every result is stored in an append-only ledger.

Exploratory

Research lab notes

0 experiments ran on 661 published measurements (GLP-1 receptor); 0 development results cleared the corrected threshold. Targets: 0 updated, 1 unchanged, 0 skipped, 0 degraded.

GLP-1 receptor

No new results

661 published measurements · 549 for development · 112 assigned to the held-out set

  • No new experiment results or prediction updates today. Cached results are not new evidence.
  • The potency model has not passed its benchmark with independent validation, so candidate edits are ordered by how often the literature reports them, not by predicted potency.
  • For scale: the native peptide's own potency varies about 30.6-fold across 22 assays, which limits what any model trained on raw cross-paper numbers can learn.

Exploratory research notes. They describe analyses of published measurements on therapeutic peptides. They are not verified claims, not health advice, and say nothing about whether any peptide is safe or effective in people. Peplexicon's research lab is non-commercial and educational.

Posted October 3, 2026Note c555bae21573
Exploratory

Research lab notes

11 experiments ran on 661 published measurements (GLP-1 receptor); 1 development results cleared the corrected threshold. Targets: 1 updated, 0 unchanged, 0 skipped, 0 degraded.

GLP-1 receptor

New results

661 published measurements · 549 for development · 112 assigned to the held-out set

  • A result cleared the corrected threshold in development and still needs confirmation on the locked holdout.
  • The potency model has not passed its benchmark with independent validation, so candidate edits are ordered by how often the literature reports them, not by predicted potency.
  • 25 new predictions committed and timestamped; 0 scored against measurements newly added to the ledger; these may come from older publications.
  • For scale: the native peptide's own potency varies about 30.6-fold across 22 assays, which limits what any model trained on raw cross-paper numbers can learn.
11 experiments run
  • raw potencies, papers up to 2013Inconclusive

    Insufficient evidence to reach a conclusion. Median rank correlation: 0.113. Uncertainty interval unavailable. Fewer-edits baseline: 0.225. Evaluated 4 papers and 87 measurements.

    p = 0.009 · needed ≤ 2.7e−5

    What was tested

    Train on papers up to a cut-off year, then rank the compounds in later papers.

  • raw potencies, papers up to 2015Inconclusive

    Insufficient evidence to reach a conclusion. Median rank correlation: 0.0913. Uncertainty interval unavailable. Fewer-edits baseline: 0.425. Evaluated 3 papers and 59 measurements.

    p = 0.082 · needed ≤ 2.5e−5

    What was tested

    Train on papers up to a cut-off year, then rank the compounds in later papers.

  • raw potencies, papers up to 2018Inconclusive

    Insufficient evidence to reach a conclusion. Median rank correlation: -0.131. Uncertainty interval unavailable. Fewer-edits baseline: 0.195. Evaluated 1 papers and 48 measurements.

    p = 1.000 · needed ≤ 2.3e−5

    What was tested

    Train on papers up to a cut-off year, then rank the compounds in later papers.

  • potencies relative to the native peptide, papers up to 2013Inconclusive

    Insufficient evidence to reach a conclusion. Median rank correlation: 0.222. Uncertainty interval unavailable. Fewer-edits baseline: 0.267. Evaluated 2 papers and 35 measurements.

    p = 0.345 · needed ≤ 2.1e−5

    What was tested

    Train on papers up to a cut-off year, then rank the compounds in later papers.

  • potencies relative to the native peptide, papers up to 2015Inconclusive

    Insufficient evidence to reach a conclusion. Median rank correlation: 0.577. Uncertainty interval unavailable. Fewer-edits baseline: 0.577. Evaluated 1 papers and 8 measurements.

    p = 0.716 · needed ≤ 1.9e−5

    What was tested

    Train on papers up to a cut-off year, then rank the compounds in later papers.

  • potencies relative to the native peptide, papers up to 2018Inconclusive

    Insufficient evidence to reach a conclusion.

    What was tested

    Train on papers up to a cut-off year, then rank the compounds in later papers.

  • raw potencies, papers up to 2013Inconclusive

    Insufficient evidence to reach a conclusion.

    What was tested

    Check whether the edits reported most often before a cut-off year are the edits used in later papers.

  • raw potencies, papers up to 2015Threshold not met

    Did not clear the corrected threshold; this does not establish that an effect is absent. 9 of 15 edits reappeared; 5 expected under the random-draw baseline. This measures literature reuse, not biological efficacy. No uncertainty interval is estimated for this count.

    p = 0.004 · needed ≤ 4.1e−5

    What was tested

    Check whether the edits reported most often before a cut-off year are the edits used in later papers.

  • raw potencies, papers up to 2018Cleared threshold

    Cleared the corrected threshold. 13 of 15 edits reappeared; 5.54 expected under the random-draw baseline. This measures literature reuse, not biological efficacy. No uncertainty interval is estimated for this count.

    p = 3.3e−5 · needed ≤ 3.6e−5

    What was tested

    Check whether the edits reported most often before a cut-off year are the edits used in later papers.

  • raw potenciesThreshold not met

    Did not clear the corrected threshold; this does not establish that an effect is absent.

    p = 0.178 · needed ≤ 0.006

    What was tested

    Ask Jev which of two compounds measured side by side is more potent, in both orders, and check its calibration.

  • papers held out from all tuningInconclusive

    Insufficient evidence to reach a conclusion.

    What was tested

    Repeat a development win on papers held out from all tuning.

Exploratory research notes. They describe analyses of published measurements on therapeutic peptides. They are not verified claims, not health advice, and say nothing about whether any peptide is safe or effective in people. Peplexicon's research lab is non-commercial and educational.

Posted October 2, 2026Note c2ef23fcf374