Red Sail practice
No Rot
Technical rigor
- Molecular assays
- Single-cell
- Spatial profiling
- Model characterization
- Reporter assay design
No Drift
Process rigor
- Adaptive workflow
- Hypothesis cards
- Six-week cycles
- Negative-result tracking
- Protected deep work
Just Forward
Outcomes
- Target nomination
- Validation readouts
- Translational handoff
- Reusable methods
- Reusable pipelines
No drift · No rot · Just forward
About
If one title captures my guiding principles, it is 'Red Sail.' Sailors once dyed their sails with tannins to protect them from rot in salt-damp air — a small, but deliberate design choice that extended the ship's working life. I apply the same logic to computational biology: in the AI era, running an analysis is rarely the bottleneck — designing it to be reliable is. With 19 years designing, executing, and analyzing reporter- and NGS-based assays, I catch the failure modes that cause rot — confounding factors, missing controls, workflow decay — before they compromise a result. Drift I keep out through process: as a certified Scrum Master (PSM I) and Product Owner (PSPO I), I iterate closely with experimentalists so the underlying aims stay achievable and quality is designed into the experiment from the very beginning, not patched in after the fact. No drift. No rot. Just forward.