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The Progenitor

Notes from inside Progenitor: what we built, what we checked, and what turned out to be theory. Written for people who read the footnotes.

Section 01 · Issue 01

Same bytes on two machines

Validation26 October 20261 min read

We took a Drylab result from production and reran it on a laptop, from its record alone. Every one of its 511,148 bytes matched.

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  1. Validation26 October 20261 min read

    What MCC 0.56 means, and what it doesn't

    Drylab's yeast gene-essentiality predictions are checked. Here is the number behind that word, in plain language.

  2. Engineering26 October 20261 min read

    A 24-second quote for a 2-second run

    Every Drylab run is priced before it starts. Here is one real quote next to what actually happened.

  3. Lineages26 October 20261 min read

    Run it dry first

    Drylab is our first lineage: experiments on living cells, run in software before anyone touches a pipette.

  4. Research26 October 20261 min read

    The cells on this site are real

    Why every clip on progenitorbio.com is published microscopy, and why one panel has no footage at all.