START HERE — how to get your SFM proposal approved & posted

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Welcome to the MRC SFM proposals board — Phase 0 of the build-your-own-SFM final project. This board is the public registry of approved projects.

Not a competition. No grades. These proposals are public so the whole cohort can see who is building what, avoid duplicated work, and help each other.

How to get your proposal on the board

1. Write it using the template: PROPOSAL.md in the SFM template repo — ~1 page (your question or engineering problem, the data, how you will evaluate, any wet-lab component).
2. Send it to Sai on Slack for feedback — by the proposal deadline on the course page (20 July 2026 for the current cohort). Sai reviews it privately: early feedback, a scope/data sanity check, and an overlap check against the other groups.
3. Once approved, open a new Discussion here in the Proposals category, titled with your project name, and paste your proposal as the first post. One thread per project.

Then

Browse the other threads to spot overlaps and possible collaborations, and keep a copy of your approved proposal as PROPOSAL.md in your own project repo. Do not start building (Phase 1) until Sai has approved your proposal.

New here? Start at START_HERE for the full flow: Propose → Build → Audit → Submit.