A genuinely useful starter pack for biotech

A helpful biotech starter pack needs one regulatory process guide, one translational science lens, and one open computational toolkit people can actually learn from. That mix reminds the team that evidence, operations, and computation all need owners.

The kinds of materials worth saving in this space:
- primary literature with clear translational implications
- trial operations checklists and startup timelines
- regulatory guidance mapped to actual development choices

Read:
- FDA drug development and approval process: fda.gov/drugs/development-approval-process-drugs
A grounding document for the path from development to review and approval.
- NCATS translational science spectrum: ncats.nih.gov/translation/spectrum
Useful for keeping research work tied to concrete translational stages.
- scverse: scverse.org/
A strong starting point for open computational work in modern omics analysis.

Documents and downloadable guides:
- Addgene protocols: addgene.org/protocols/
Practical wet-lab documentation that is genuinely useful for day-to-day work.
- NCBI Bookshelf: ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/
A deep public archive for primers, reference texts, and method overviews.

Watch:
- NIH video archive: youtube.com/@NIH/videos
Webinars and talks that help keep the science connected to real public research practice.
- Addgene video archive: youtube.com/@addgene/videos
Clear explainers and protocols from a source readers already trust for plasmid work.

Build or inspect:
- scvi-tools: github.com/scverse/scvi-tools
Open source probabilistic tooling for single-cell and spatial omics work.
- Biopython: github.com/biopython/biopython
Still useful as a practical reminder that a lot of bio tooling is public and inspectable.

Image references:
- Addgene protocol visuals: addgene.org/protocols/
Bench-ready diagrams and step images that make the written protocols more legible.