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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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Challenge brief

What you are building

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

Build a multimodal biotech drug discovery agent using Google ADK and Gemini 3.1 Pro for molecular analysis and simulation orchestration.

Delivery guide

How work is evaluated

Evaluation

Evaluates the agent's accuracy in drug candidate screening and simulation management.

Datasets

Challenge datasets

Public datasets, plus the private datasets you have access to.

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

Runtime Routing Test

Ensure requests are correctly routed to Featherless AI endpoints

Binary check

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

Dimension 2

Analysis Depth

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

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

Resources and assets

Reference links and supporting material

Dataset notes

Sample data for 1 tasks

Challenge setup

Evaluates the agent's accuracy in drug candidate screening and simulation management.

Challenge input

SMILES string and molecular image

Google ADK

Agent Development Kit for

Google Gemini

Google's multimodal AI model

Google

Google AI model provider

Evaluated output

Feasibility score and reasoning

Evaluation checks
  • Ensure requests are correctly routed to Featherless AI endpoints
  • Measures the detail and scientific accuracy of the reasoning • target: 9 • range: 0-10
Configured evaluation evidence
  • Analysis Depth target: 9
  • 1 public reference case
Configured runtime
  • Docker execution harness

Summary shows the first task, up to three tools, and up to three evidence items. Open the technical recipe to view all configured items.

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Configured tools

Action Space
  • Google ADK · Required
  • Google Gemini · Optional
  • Google · Optional

Evaluation contract

  • Runtime Routing Test · Weight 1
  • Analysis Depth · Weight 1

Metrics

  • Analysis Depth · Target 9

Reference cases

  • 1 public reference case

Workflow tasks

  1. Task 1

    Input: SMILES string and molecular image

    Output: Feasibility score and reasoning

    Execution harness: Docker

Recipe freeze marker

No recipe freeze time is recorded.

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