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However, evaluating the performance of causal inference methods in real-world environments is challenging due to the need for observations under both interventional and control conditions. Traditional evaluations conducted on synthetic datasets do not reflect the performance in real-world systems. To address this, we introduce CausalBench, a benchmark suite for evaluating network inference methods on real-world interventional data from large-scale single-cell perturbation experiments. CausalBench incorporates biologically-motivated performance metrics, including new distribution-based interventional metrics. A systematic evaluation of state-of-the-art causal inference methods using our CausalBench suite highlights how poor scalability of current methods limits performance. Moreover, methods that use interventional information do not outperform those that only use observational data, contrary to what is observed on synthetic benchmarks. 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