Computational Biology Researcher (Research Coding Tasks)

What You'll Do7

• Pick a recent paper with public code, ideally one you wrote, and locate the code that carries its main technical claim.
• Remove that core implementation while keeping the surrounding files and dependencies needed for a workable task.
• Write a task statement that tells an AI agent what to rebuild and which published results to match or exceed.
• Create held-out evaluation workloads and set pass thresholds for each metric.
• Build a hidden reference solution that restores the paper's method.
• Add a second solution that clears the threshold and shows the bar is reachable.
• Review agent attempts on your task and judge each submission against the stated metrics.

Requirements6

• Published computational biology research at Bioinformatics, RECOMB, ISMB, Genome Research or a comparable venue.
• A public code release tied to at least one paper, with a GitHub or artifact link you can share.
• A PhD in computer science or a related field, completed or in progress.
• First-author work that reports a measured gain over a baseline (preferred).
• Docker experience and reproducible benchmark setups (preferred).
• Depth in read alignment, genome assembly, indexing and variant calling tools (preferred).

Who Should Apply

The role suits a computational biology researcher who publishes, ships code, and wants to turn their own work into an evaluation task for AI agents. You should hold a PhD in CS or a related field, have a paper with a public code release, and bring comfort with Docker-based benchmarks and genomics tooling such as read alignment or variant calling.

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