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This work was supported by (BD2K) the National Human Genome Research Institute of the National Institutes of Health award no. 5U54HG007990 and (Cloud Pilot) the National Cancer Institute of the National Institutes of Health under the Broad Institute subaward no. 5417071-5500000716. The UCSC Genome Browser work was supported by the NHGRI award 5U41HG002371 (Corporate Sponsors). The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health or our corporate sponsors.
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Vivian, J., Rao, A., Nothaft, F. et al. Toil enables reproducible, open source, big biomedical data analyses. Nat Biotechnol 35, 314–316 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt.3772
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