Hi everyone,
My name is Orr Ashenberg. I am a computational biologist at the Broad Instititute and am one of the organizers of this competition. Thanks for being involved! I hope it has been interesting and fun so far. I will be taking a look at the forum and discord, helping answer some questions, and bringing in others when needed. Please feel free to ask me any questions in this thread.
I also want to encourage you to submit your predictions for Crunch 1 during the validation checkpoints, and to start working on Crunch 2 (which is also a great path to doing Crunch 3). And as a reminder, please check out resources available through the Crash course lecture series and the set of references listed at the end of our competition specifications document. Happy coding!