BioBasicsBench by OpenAI
A benchmark for how AI agents read raw lab data
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BioBasicsBench is OpenAI’s benchmark, developed with enzyme-design company Ligo, for how AI agents handle everyday wet-lab science. It has 100 tasks that scientists built from real experiments, covering gels, colony plates, microscopy, sequencing reads and more, graded against expert rubrics. Per OpenAI, GPT-6 Astra scored 66.7% at its highest effort setting, and higher scores do not yet amount to reliable laboratory judgment.
PH · launched Nov 9, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 65%) · 0 views
Niche: ai benchmarking platforms · 145 launches, 4 in the last 7 days ▼ -56% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Healthcare
- Observability & eval
- Developer
- AI-native
- Commercial product
- Artificial Intelligence
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Could you build this?
No A credible benchmark needs expert-authored tasks built from real wet-lab experiments, expert grading rubrics, and access to lab data, none of which vibe coding can supply.
What it would actually take: Assemble a task set from real experiments with domain scientists who write the tasks and expert rubrics, then build an evaluation harness that runs agents on raw files such as gel images, plate reads, and sequencing data. The hard part is the curated data and validated grading criteria, which require wet-lab expertise and inter-rater calibration. Running frontier models at scale also requires significant compute budgets and API access.
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Launched 370 days after the earliest competitor.
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