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Editorial
. 2016 Jul 14;12(7):e1004947.
doi: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1004947. eCollection 2016 Jul.

Ten Simple Rules for Taking Advantage of Git and GitHub

Yasset Perez-Riverol  1 , Laurent Gatto  2 , Rui Wang  1 , Timo Sachsenberg  3 , Julian Uszkoreit  4 , Felipe da Veiga Leprevost  5 , Christian Fufezan  6 , Tobias Ternent  1 , Stephen J Eglen  7 , Daniel S Katz  8 , Tom J Pollard  9 , Alexander Konovalov  10 , Robert M Flight  11 , Kai Blin  12 , Juan Antonio Vizcaíno  1
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Ten Simple Rules for Taking Advantage of Git and GitHub

Yasset Perez-Riverol et al. PLoS Comput Biol. .

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors have no affiliation with GitHub, nor with any other commercial entity mentioned in this article. The views described here reflect their own views without input from any third party organization.

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Fig 1. The structure of a GitHub-based project illustrating project structure and interactions with the community.
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