WEEK 16 · GATE 16: PAPER 1 ON BIORXIV (L3)

Do one thing.
Then you are ahead.

There is a moment in every explorer's story when the map leaves their hands. Before it, it is a draft; after it, it belongs to everyone who wants to check it. This week you press "submit" on bioRxiv. It will feel anticlimactic (a form, a PDF, a category) and then, a few days later, a DOI appears, and your name is attached to a piece of science forever. You also translate it for humans: a LinkedIn article for non-sci…

If you only do one thing this week: the submission

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4/13 Watch 15 min? W17 Saturday Sandbox optional

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

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In: LABLOOP-W17 Notebook

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By Sunday you should be able to say: “I am the author of a preprint with a DOI. I can explain conformal coverage and what a protein embedding is.”

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2026-09-28 22:11 Finished: Crash Course Biology #3 · "Biological Molecules
2026-09-28 21:50 Finished: OpenStax Biology 2e
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