Writers have a saying: you do not write a book, you write a page a day and one day it is a book. This week you write three sections in three build blocks, and the order matters. Monday: Introduction and Related work, the "why should anyone care, and what exists already". Wednesday: Methods, the recipe precise enough that another cook produces the same dish. Friday: Results and Limitations, the plates on the table an…
If you only do one thing this week: Methods section
Yang, Wu & Arnold (2019), "Machine-learning-guided directed evolution for protein engineering"
Saturday sandbox
Yang, Wu & Arnold (2019), "Machine-learning-guided directed evolution for protein engineering", Nature Methods 16:687-694. The classic review; read it before week 21