Challenge

Automated Western Blot Integrity Auditor with Mastra AI and OpenAI o3

Emerging reports highlight widespread image manipulation in scientific antibody validation datasets. Build a multi-modal audit pipeline with Mastra AI and OpenAI o3 to inspect biomedical image artifacts and flag duplications or spliced gel bands. Achieve a 0.95 F1-score across benchmark scientific literature image sets.

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Challenge brief

What you are building

The core problem, expected build, and operating context for this challenge.

Implement a TypeScript-based scientific image audit system using Mastra AI and OpenAI o3 for detecting antibody validation manipulation.

Delivery guide

How work is evaluated

Evaluation

Evaluates image manipulation detection accuracy on Western blot scientific figure benchmarks.

Datasets

Shared data for this challenge

Review public datasets and any private uploads tied to your build.

Evaluation rubric

How submissions are scored

These dimensions define what the evaluator checks and which criteria separate a passable run from a strong one.

Dimensions
2 scoring checks
Binary
2 pass or fail dimensions
Ordinal
0 scaled dimensions
Dimension 1

schema_validity

Output contains manipulation_detected boolean and confidence score.

Binary check

This dimension contributes its full weight only when the submission satisfies the requirement. Partial credit is not awarded.

Dimension 2

f1_score

F1 metric for identifying altered scientific images • target: 0.95 • range: 0-1

Binary check

This dimension contributes its full weight only when the submission satisfies the requirement. Partial credit is not awarded.

Learning goals

What you should walk away with

  • Build multi-modal image analysis workflows using Mastra AI framework

  • Leverage OpenAI o3 reasoning capabilities for detecting subtle pixel duplications and band splices

  • Generate automated forensic audit reports for paper retraction workflows

  • Integrate OpenCV canvas processing in Node.js/TypeScript environments

Resources and assets

Reference links and supporting material

Dataset notes

Dataset of 200 synthetic and annotated Western blot gel images containing authentic controls and manipulated duplicates/splices.

How this agent runs

Evaluates image manipulation detection accuracy on Western blot scientific figure benchmarks.

Challenge input

JSON containing image URLs or base64 encoded gel images.

Mastra AI

Required framework for building structured agent workflows in TypeScript.

OpenAI o3

Advanced visual reasoning model for pixel-level anomaly verification.

Evaluated output

JSON object with manipulation_detected boolean, anomaly_locations, and reasoning trace.

Checks for
  • Output contains manipulation_detected boolean and confidence score.
  • F1 metric for identifying altered scientific images • target: 0.95 • range: 0-1
Proof of success
  • Benchmark: Scientific Figure Image Integrity Benchmark
  • F1 Score target: 0.95
  • 1 public reference case
Runtime evidence
  • JavaScript execution harness
  • javascript sandbox (unavailable on Versalist)
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Configured tools

Action Space
  • OpenAI o3 · Required
  • OpenAI · Optional
  • Mastra AI · Optional
Orchestration
  • Mastra AI · Optional

Evaluation contract

  • schema_validity · Weight 1
  • f1_score · Weight 1

Recipe state

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