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#18 Bioinformatics Contest 2018 with Alexey Sergushichev and Ekaterina Vyahhi

03.03.2018 - By Roman CheplyakaPlay

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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

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