Challenge

Biotech Orchestration System

Reflecting the multi-billion dollar deal between Insilico Medicine and Eli Lilly, this challenge involves building a high-performance biotech agent orchestrator. You will use the Google ADK to develop a system that coordinates drug discovery tasks across various specialized environments. The core reasoning engine will be Gemini 3.1 Pro, which will use its large context window and multimodal capabilities to analyze molecular structures and research papers. You will integrate Featherless AI for high-throughput model serving of specialized chemistry models and Edge Impulse to handle data from lab sensors. This system will simulate the orchestration of a co-development pipeline, where agents must determine the feasibility of drug candidates based on simulated efficacy data. The challenge emphasizes the use of modern model runtimes and specialized inference for high-stakes scientific applications.

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Status
Always open
Difficulty
Advanced
Points
500
Challenge brief

What you are building

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

Reflecting the multi-billion dollar deal between Insilico Medicine and Eli Lilly, this challenge involves building a high-performance biotech agent orchestrator. You will use the Google ADK to develop a system that coordinates drug discovery tasks across various specialized environments. The core reasoning engine will be Gemini 3.1 Pro, which will use its large context window and multimodal capabilities to analyze molecular structures and research papers. You will integrate Featherless AI for high-throughput model serving of specialized chemistry models and Edge Impulse to handle data from lab sensors. This system will simulate the orchestration of a co-development pipeline, where agents must determine the feasibility of drug candidates based on simulated efficacy data. The challenge emphasizes the use of modern model runtimes and specialized inference for high-stakes scientific applications.

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Evaluation rubric

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These dimensions define what the evaluator checks, how much each dimension matters, and which criteria separate a passable run from a strong one.

Max Score: 2
Dimensions
2 scoring checks
Binary
2 pass or fail dimensions
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0 scaled dimensions
Dimension 1runtime_routing_test

Runtime Routing Test

Ensure requests are correctly routed to Featherless AI endpoints

binary
Weight: 1
Binary check

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

Dimension 2analysis_depth

Analysis Depth

Measures the detail and scientific accuracy of the reasoning • target: 9 • range: 0-10

binary
Weight: 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

  • Deploy Gemini 3.1 Pro with extended reasoning for analyzing complex biochemical pathways

  • Master Google ADK for building agents that leverage Vertex AI and multimodal tool-calling

  • Utilize Featherless AI to run and route requests to fine-tuned Llama 4 Maverick models for chemistry tasks

  • Integrate Edge Impulse to ingest and process real-time sensor data from drug trials within the agent loop

  • Design hierarchical planning workflows where a lead agent delegates molecular docking simulations to specialized worker agents

  • Implement Claude Sonnet 4.6.6 as a cross-verification agent to peer-review Gemini 3.1 Pro research findings

Start from your terminal
$npx -y @versalist/cli start biotech-orchestration-system

[ok] Wrote CHALLENGE.md

[ok] Wrote .versalist.json

[ok] Wrote eval/examples.json

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Evaluation
Rubric: 2 dimensions
·Runtime Routing Test(1%)
·Analysis Depth(1%)
Gold items: 1 (1 public)

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