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LAB-Bench SeqQA — Amplicon length to primers

Selects primers that produce a requested amplicon length from a DNA template.

Benchmark definition

What is counted

Version
repository-998a8e0
Total
50 (questions across public and private splits)
Task formats
multiple choice
Capabilities
DesignData analysis
Modalities
TextDNA or RNA sequence

Version history

VersionStatusRelease / as-ofTotalFormal tracks
paper-v3
lab-bench-seqqa-pcr-len-primers-paper-v3
active2024-07-1750 (questions across public and private splits)None registered
repository-998a8e0
lab-bench-seqqa-pcr-len-primers-repository-998a8e0
current2025-09-2750 (questions across public and private splits)None registered

Tracks and subsets

IDCountBasisPartition?Notes
Public split
lab-bench-seqqa-pcr-len-primers-public
40questionsExclusive & exhaustiveReleased in the official repository and Hugging Face dataset.
Private contamination-monitoring split
lab-bench-seqqa-pcr-len-primers-private
10questionsExclusive & exhaustiveIDs are published; question contents are withheld.

Scientific Task Atlas

Scientific task classification

complete for repository-998a8e0. Single-purpose formal LAB-Bench track.

Scientific taskCoverageCountMappingEvidence
DNA sequence designexplicitly-in-scope50 questions
questions across public and private splits
official-track
high confidence
lab-bench-seqqa-pcr-len-primers-evidence-paper
PCR primer selection under an amplicon-length constraint.

Evaluation registry

Works and run settings

A setting change—scope, prompt, tools, budget, grader, or repeats—creates a separate run. Charts never cross a comparability group.

Evaluation run

lab-bench-seqqa-pcr-len-primers-creator-mcq

From LAB-Bench: Measuring Capabilities of Language Models for Biology Research

lab-bench-seqqa-pcr-len-primers-paper-v3-zero-shot-cot-no-toolsvpaper-v3

Evaluated models / systems: Claude 3.5 Sonnet (claude-3-5-sonnet-20240620), Claude 3 Haiku (claude-3-haiku-20240307), Claude 3 Opus (claude-3-opus-20240229), Gemini 1.5 Pro (gemini-1.5-pro-001), GPT-4 Turbo (LAB-Bench snapshot not reported), GPT-4o (LAB-Bench snapshot not reported), Meta-Llama-3-70B-Instruct (Anyscale API)

Scopefull · n=50
Shots0
Turnssingle-turn
System prompt publicYes
Reasoning / effortzero-shot chain-of-thought
BrowserNo
InternetNo
DatabasesNo
Code executionNo
ContainerNo
External toolsNo
Token budgetNot reported
Time / cost budgetNot reported
TemperatureNot reported
SeedNot reported
Repeats3
Graderregex multiple-choice parser with Claude 2 fallback · model: Claude 2 fallback parser · human review: no
Statisticsmean across three runs per model
Contaminationfull pre-release snapshot with 80% later public and 20% private contamination-monitoring splits
Metrics, results, and full protocol

Metrics

MetricKind / baselineUnitAggregationThreshold / tolerance
Accuracyabsoluteproportioncorrect / all questions; mean over three runsexact choice
Precision (selective accuracy)absoluteproportioncorrect / attempted questions; mean over three runsinsufficient-information responses excluded from denominator
Coverageabsoluteproportionattempted / all questions; mean over three runsinsufficient-information responses treated as not attempted

Results

ModelMetricValuen
Claude 3.5 Sonnet (claude-3-5-sonnet-20240620)Accuracy0.29 proportion
Creator-paper full-snapshot result; human-baseline row is not encoded as a model result.
50
Claude 3.5 Sonnet (claude-3-5-sonnet-20240620)Precision (selective accuracy)0.29 proportion
Creator-paper full-snapshot result; human-baseline row is not encoded as a model result.
50
Claude 3.5 Sonnet (claude-3-5-sonnet-20240620)Coverage0.99 proportion
Creator-paper full-snapshot result; human-baseline row is not encoded as a model result.
50
Claude 3 Opus (claude-3-opus-20240229)Accuracy0.37 proportion
Creator-paper full-snapshot result; human-baseline row is not encoded as a model result.
50
Claude 3 Opus (claude-3-opus-20240229)Precision (selective accuracy)0.45 proportion
Creator-paper full-snapshot result; human-baseline row is not encoded as a model result.
50
Claude 3 Opus (claude-3-opus-20240229)Coverage0.81 proportion
Creator-paper full-snapshot result; human-baseline row is not encoded as a model result.
50
Gemini 1.5 Pro (gemini-1.5-pro-001)Accuracy0.02 proportion
Creator-paper full-snapshot result; human-baseline row is not encoded as a model result.
50
Gemini 1.5 Pro (gemini-1.5-pro-001)Precision (selective accuracy)0.07 proportion
Creator-paper full-snapshot result; human-baseline row is not encoded as a model result.
50
Gemini 1.5 Pro (gemini-1.5-pro-001)Coverage0.31 proportion
Creator-paper full-snapshot result; human-baseline row is not encoded as a model result.
50
GPT-4o (LAB-Bench snapshot not reported)Accuracy0.12 proportion
Creator-paper full-snapshot result; human-baseline row is not encoded as a model result.
50
GPT-4o (LAB-Bench snapshot not reported)Precision (selective accuracy)0.14 proportion
Creator-paper full-snapshot result; human-baseline row is not encoded as a model result.
50
GPT-4o (LAB-Bench snapshot not reported)Coverage0.84 proportion
Creator-paper full-snapshot result; human-baseline row is not encoded as a model result.
50
GPT-4 Turbo (LAB-Bench snapshot not reported)Accuracy0.1 proportion
Creator-paper full-snapshot result; human-baseline row is not encoded as a model result.
50
GPT-4 Turbo (LAB-Bench snapshot not reported)Precision (selective accuracy)0.13 proportion
Creator-paper full-snapshot result; human-baseline row is not encoded as a model result.
50
GPT-4 Turbo (LAB-Bench snapshot not reported)Coverage0.78 proportion
Creator-paper full-snapshot result; human-baseline row is not encoded as a model result.
50
Claude 3 Haiku (claude-3-haiku-20240307)Accuracy0.13 proportion
Creator-paper full-snapshot result; human-baseline row is not encoded as a model result.
50
Claude 3 Haiku (claude-3-haiku-20240307)Precision (selective accuracy)0.14 proportion
Creator-paper full-snapshot result; human-baseline row is not encoded as a model result.
50
Claude 3 Haiku (claude-3-haiku-20240307)Coverage0.95 proportion
Creator-paper full-snapshot result; human-baseline row is not encoded as a model result.
50
Meta-Llama-3-70B-Instruct (Anyscale API)Accuracy0.06 proportion
Creator-paper full-snapshot result; human-baseline row is not encoded as a model result.
50
Meta-Llama-3-70B-Instruct (Anyscale API)Precision (selective accuracy)0.06 proportion
Creator-paper full-snapshot result; human-baseline row is not encoded as a model result.
50
Meta-Llama-3-70B-Instruct (Anyscale API)Coverage1 proportion
Creator-paper full-snapshot result; human-baseline row is not encoded as a model result.
50

Evidence

  • section: Appendix D.1–D.4; Table 1 and Appendix Table 6 (Full scope, zero-shot chain-of-thought prompt, no tools, three runs, exact metrics, parser, and model identities.) — supports /benchmark_version, /model_ids, /scope, /protocol, /metrics
  • table: Tables 2–4, row SeqQA_PCR-len-primers-v1 (Accuracy, precision, and coverage. Human row excluded.) — supports /results

Comparable result views

Accuracy

lab-bench-seqqa-pcr-len-primers-creator-mcq · lab-bench-seqqa-pcr-len-primers-paper-v3-zero-shot-cot-no-tools

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ModelValueComparability group
Claude 3.5 Sonnet (claude-3-5-sonnet-20240620)0.29lab-bench-seqqa-pcr-len-primers-paper-v3-zero-shot-cot-no-tools
Claude 3 Opus (claude-3-opus-20240229)0.37lab-bench-seqqa-pcr-len-primers-paper-v3-zero-shot-cot-no-tools
Gemini 1.5 Pro (gemini-1.5-pro-001)0.02lab-bench-seqqa-pcr-len-primers-paper-v3-zero-shot-cot-no-tools
GPT-4o (LAB-Bench snapshot not reported)0.12lab-bench-seqqa-pcr-len-primers-paper-v3-zero-shot-cot-no-tools
GPT-4 Turbo (LAB-Bench snapshot not reported)0.1lab-bench-seqqa-pcr-len-primers-paper-v3-zero-shot-cot-no-tools
Claude 3 Haiku (claude-3-haiku-20240307)0.13lab-bench-seqqa-pcr-len-primers-paper-v3-zero-shot-cot-no-tools
Meta-Llama-3-70B-Instruct (Anyscale API)0.06lab-bench-seqqa-pcr-len-primers-paper-v3-zero-shot-cot-no-tools

Precision (selective accuracy)

lab-bench-seqqa-pcr-len-primers-creator-mcq · lab-bench-seqqa-pcr-len-primers-paper-v3-zero-shot-cot-no-tools

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ModelValueComparability group
Claude 3.5 Sonnet (claude-3-5-sonnet-20240620)0.29lab-bench-seqqa-pcr-len-primers-paper-v3-zero-shot-cot-no-tools
Claude 3 Opus (claude-3-opus-20240229)0.45lab-bench-seqqa-pcr-len-primers-paper-v3-zero-shot-cot-no-tools
Gemini 1.5 Pro (gemini-1.5-pro-001)0.07lab-bench-seqqa-pcr-len-primers-paper-v3-zero-shot-cot-no-tools
GPT-4o (LAB-Bench snapshot not reported)0.14lab-bench-seqqa-pcr-len-primers-paper-v3-zero-shot-cot-no-tools
GPT-4 Turbo (LAB-Bench snapshot not reported)0.13lab-bench-seqqa-pcr-len-primers-paper-v3-zero-shot-cot-no-tools
Claude 3 Haiku (claude-3-haiku-20240307)0.14lab-bench-seqqa-pcr-len-primers-paper-v3-zero-shot-cot-no-tools
Meta-Llama-3-70B-Instruct (Anyscale API)0.06lab-bench-seqqa-pcr-len-primers-paper-v3-zero-shot-cot-no-tools

Coverage

lab-bench-seqqa-pcr-len-primers-creator-mcq · lab-bench-seqqa-pcr-len-primers-paper-v3-zero-shot-cot-no-tools

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ModelValueComparability group
Claude 3.5 Sonnet (claude-3-5-sonnet-20240620)0.99lab-bench-seqqa-pcr-len-primers-paper-v3-zero-shot-cot-no-tools
Claude 3 Opus (claude-3-opus-20240229)0.81lab-bench-seqqa-pcr-len-primers-paper-v3-zero-shot-cot-no-tools
Gemini 1.5 Pro (gemini-1.5-pro-001)0.31lab-bench-seqqa-pcr-len-primers-paper-v3-zero-shot-cot-no-tools
GPT-4o (LAB-Bench snapshot not reported)0.84lab-bench-seqqa-pcr-len-primers-paper-v3-zero-shot-cot-no-tools
GPT-4 Turbo (LAB-Bench snapshot not reported)0.78lab-bench-seqqa-pcr-len-primers-paper-v3-zero-shot-cot-no-tools
Claude 3 Haiku (claude-3-haiku-20240307)0.95lab-bench-seqqa-pcr-len-primers-paper-v3-zero-shot-cot-no-tools
Meta-Llama-3-70B-Instruct (Anyscale API)1lab-bench-seqqa-pcr-len-primers-paper-v3-zero-shot-cot-no-tools

Evidence and change history

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LAB-Bench: Measuring Capabilities of Language Models for Biology Research · section: Table 1; Appendix Tables 2–6; task description for SeqQA_PCR-len-primers-v1 (Task definition, total count, creator protocol, and result row.) · Supports 17 fields

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lab-bench-seqqa-pcr-len-primers-repository-resource · repository-path: SeqQA/PCR-len-primers-v1-splits.json; SeqQA/PCR-len-primers-v1-public.jsonl where present; task.py at 998a8e0a40cf116c80e1b0e7a805ebb5fb9fa838 (Public/private/total 40/10/50.) · Supports 13 fields

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