Description

The final round of Bioinformatics Contest 2018 was held on February 24-25th,
and the qualification round took place two weeks earlier.

I invited the organizers of the contest, Alexey Sergushichev and Ekaterina Vyahhi,
to discuss the problems and find out what it was like to organize the contest.

Timestamps for the problems:

• Qualification round
  • 0:41:38 Problem 1. Synthesis of ATP
  • 0:48:46 Problem 2. Restriction Sites
  • 1:06:42 Problem 3. Tandem Repeats
• Final round
  • 1:14:00 Problem 1. Recombination of Plasmids
  • 1:25:30 Problem 2. Species Recovering
  • 1:28:39 Problem 3. Haplotype Phasing
  • 1:36:34 Problem 4. Cluster the Reads
  • 1:40:25 Problem 5. Cattle Breeding

Links:

• The contest problems on Stepik
• The final scoreboard
• Bioinformatics Institute

If you enjoyed this episode, please consider supporting the podcast on Patreon.