Build a Biopython FASTA Cleanser and IUPAC Code Quality Auditor
Audit high-throughput FASTA sequence submissions for non-standard nucleotide characters and low-complexity regions. Generate structured FHIR DiagnosticReport payloads with quality metrics.
What you are building
The core problem, expected build, and operating context for this challenge.
Audit high-throughput FASTA sequence submissions for non-standard nucleotide characters and low-complexity regions. Generate structured FHIR DiagnosticReport payloads with quality metrics.
Sequencing Core Analyst
Read uploaded multi-FASTA files using Biopython SeqIO parsing iterators.
Identify ambiguous IUPAC nucleotide symbols, degenerate stretches, and uncalled base runs.
Compute per-sequence GC percentage, sequence length, and ambiguous character frequencies.
Construct FHIR Molecular Observation entries detailing quality scores for bioinformatic pipelines.
Interactive upload web portal with real-time sequence quality charts and downloadable audit reports.
Generate synthetic FASTA files with intentional IUPAC ambiguous characters (N, R, Y, S, W) locally. Starter examples below are synthetic. They are not downloaded records.
Biopython Uses Biopython Bio.SeqIO and sequence manipulation methods described in Biopython README and documentation.
langfuse, biopython, fastapi. Tracks audit latency, quality parameter distributions, and sequence drift metrics across incoming batches. Lightweight hosted language model for summarizing sequence anomaly reports into natural language.
Submit runnable source, pinned dependencies, setup commands, a working interface, example outputs, and a recorded end-to-end demo. Include tests and an action log.
Flags non-IUPAC characters and calculates ambiguous base percentages accurately.
Serializes sequence quality statistics into valid FHIR Molecular Observation resources.
Processes multi-record FASTA files streaming line-by-line without high memory consumption.
```json [ { "input": { "record_id": "SEQ-001", "sequence": "ATGCGTACCGGTTACGTACCGTTAGGCTAGCTAGGCTACGTACGTAGCTAGCTAG" }, "expected_output": { "record_id": "SEQ-001", "length_bp": 56, "gc_content_pct": 51.79, "ambiguous_count": 0, "pass_qc": true, "fhir_observation_status": "final" } }, { "input": { "record_id": "SEQ-002", "sequence": "ATGCGNNNNCGGTTRYSTAGCTAGZZZCTAG" }, "expected_output": { "record_id": "SEQ-002", "length_bp": 31, "gc_content_pct": 38.71, "ambiguous_count": 8, "invalid_chars": [ "Z" ], "pass_qc": false, "fhir_observation_status": "preliminary" } } ] ```
Quality assurance on research and de-identified sequencing data only; no medical decision support. Use mock external writes. Require human review before any real deployment.
Participation guide
Quality assurance on research and de-identified sequencing data only; no medical decision support. Use mock external writes and human review.
How work is evaluated
Flags non-IUPAC characters and calculates ambiguous base percentages accurately. Serializes sequence quality statistics into valid FHIR Molecular Observation resources. Processes multi-record FASTA files streaming line-by-line without high memory consumption.
Runnable source, pinned dependencies, setup commands, working interface, example outputs, recorded demo, tests, and action logs.
Challenge datasets
Public datasets, plus the private datasets you have access to.
How submissions are scored
These dimensions define what the evaluator checks and which criteria separate a passable run from a strong one.
Complete workflow
Read uploaded multi-FASTA files using Biopython SeqIO parsing iterators. Identify ambiguous IUPAC nucleotide symbols, degenerate stretches, and uncalled base runs. Compute per-sequence GC percentage, sequence length, and ambiguous character frequencies. Construct FHIR Molecular Observation entries detailing quality scores for bioinformatic pipelines.
Missing or incorrect.
Partly complete, with documented gaps.
Complete, with reproducible evidence.
Correctness and evidence
Flags non-IUPAC characters and calculates ambiguous base percentages accurately. Serializes sequence quality statistics into valid FHIR Molecular Observation resources. Processes multi-record FASTA files streaming line-by-line without high memory consumption.
Missing or incorrect.
Partly complete, with documented gaps.
Complete, with reproducible evidence.
Review interface
Interactive upload web portal with real-time sequence quality charts and downloadable audit reports.
Missing or incorrect.
Partly complete, with documented gaps.
Complete, with reproducible evidence.
Safe execution
Quality assurance on research and de-identified sequencing data only; no medical decision support.
This dimension contributes its full weight only when the submission satisfies the requirement. Partial credit is not awarded.
What you should walk away with
Read uploaded multi-FASTA files using Biopython SeqIO parsing iterators.
Identify ambiguous IUPAC nucleotide symbols, degenerate stretches, and uncalled base runs.
Compute per-sequence GC percentage, sequence length, and ambiguous character frequencies.
Construct FHIR Molecular Observation entries detailing quality scores for bioinformatic pipelines.
Reference links and supporting material
Generate synthetic FASTA files with intentional IUPAC ambiguous characters (N, R, Y, S, W) locally. Supplied starter examples are synthetic, not source extracts.
Challenge setup
Configuration summary for this challenge.
Challenge input
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Langfuse
Open-source LLM observability and evals.
Evaluated output
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- Read uploaded multi-FASTA files using Biopython SeqIO parsing iterators. Identify ambiguous IUPAC nucleotid...
- Flags non-IUPAC characters and calculates ambiguous base percentages accurately. Serializes sequence qualit...
- Interactive upload web portal with real-time sequence quality charts and downloadable audit reports.
- 2 public reference cases
- 2 configured tools
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
- Langfuse · Optional
- Langfuse · Optional
Evaluation contract
- Complete workflow · Weight 40
- Correctness and evidence · Weight 30
- Review interface · Weight 20
- Safe execution · Weight 10
Reference cases
- 2 public reference cases
Workflow tasks
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