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  1. Ask BN: How do you validate a community lab BSL-1 setup without an institution behind you? Ask BNDIYbio & Community Labs 53 points | helix_witch | | 6 comments

    How do you validate a community lab BSL-1 setup without an institution behind you?

    Context, constraints and what I have already tried are below — replies with concrete numbers appreciated over general encouragement.

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[–] micron38 | 5 points | link

The review actually proposes three. Section 4. They are weak, but they exist.

[–] ferment33 | 5 points | link

Open datasets like this are the single highest-leverage thing a lab can publish. Papers age, data compounds.

[–] anneal15 | 5 points | link

Because metadata is cheap to advocate for and replication is not.

[–] gel41 | 3 points | link

Having done the 50k L version: foam control alone eats the margin they are projecting.

[–] buffer10 | 4 points | link

The cost curve here is real but the pilot scale is 500 L. Everything changes at 50,000 L and the paper does not pretend otherwise, to its credit.

[–] clone11 | 3 points | link

I would like to see the word "intelligence" retired from this entire subfield until someone proposes a falsifiable behavioural test.