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 Final round Links: The contest problems on Stepik The final scoreboard Bioinformatics Institute