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Common synthetic lethality prioritization mistakes

The most common mistake is confusing candidate generation with decision progress. Other failure modes include weak mechanistic framing, no explicit uncertainty handling, and validation plans that are too broad to be real.

Teams also lose clarity when they optimize around novelty signals alone. Novelty can matter, but without a structured validation path it often just increases backlog size.

The better standard is simple: every prioritization step should make the next experimental decision easier, not just the presentation more impressive.

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