Reviewer Guidelines

Reviewer responsibilities

• Submit timely, substantive, and constructive reviews.
• Evaluate the work in the context of its biological task and data.
• Separate predictive evidence from mechanistic or deployment claims.
• Declare conflicts and protect double-blind confidentiality.

Evaluation criteria

• Clarity of the problem and claims.
• Technical rigour and reproducibility.
• Faithfulness to the biological setting.
• Depth of failure analysis.
• Quality of empirical documentation.

Conflicts of interest

OpenReview profiles will identify recent co-authorship and institutional conflicts. When an organizer has a conflict, a conflict-free two-person group from the program committee will make the final decision.

Review timeline

The tentative review period is August 29–September 21, 2026.

Program committee

Full public names and profile links will be announced after confirmation.