Before a bridge opens, two different inspectors walk it: one checks the calculations, the other checks the welds. This week your paper gets two inspectors. The first is Reviewer 2, the famously harsh anonymous reviewer, played by an LLM twice. The second is a human scientist, the one inspection that cannot be automated. You will ask for it, and you may pay a postdoc for two hours. That is not a weakness: professiona…
If you only do one thing this week: human review requested
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