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+cff-version: 1.2.0
+message: "If you use this software, please cite it as below."
+authors:
+- family-names: "Schneidman-Duhovny"
+  given-names: "Dina"
+- family-names: "Khuri"
+  given-names: "Natalia"
+- family-names: "Dong"
+  given-names: "Guang Qiang"
+- family-names: "Winter"
+  given-names: "Michael B."
+- family-names: "Shifrut"
+  given-names: "Eric"
+- family-names: "Friedman"
+  given-names: "Nir"
+- family-names: "Craik"
+  given-names: "Charles S."
+- family-names: "Pratt"
+  given-names: "Kathleen P."
+- family-names: "Paz"
+  given-names: "Pedro"
+- family-names: "Aswad"
+  given-names: "Fred"
+- family-names: "Sali"
+  given-names: "Andrej"
+title: "ITCell"
+url: "https://github.com/salilab/itcell"
+preferred-citation:
+  type: article
+  authors:
+  - family-names: "Schneidman-Duhovny"
+    given-names: "Dina"
+  - family-names: "Khuri"
+    given-names: "Natalia"
+  - family-names: "Dong"
+    given-names: "Guang Qiang"
+  - family-names: "Winter"
+    given-names: "Michael B."
+  - family-names: "Shifrut"
+    given-names: "Eric"
+  - family-names: "Friedman"
+    given-names: "Nir"
+  - family-names: "Craik"
+    given-names: "Charles S."
+  - family-names: "Pratt"
+    given-names: "Kathleen P."
+  - family-names: "Paz"
+    given-names: "Pedro"
+  - family-names: "Aswad"
+    given-names: "Fred"
+  - family-names: "Sali"
+    given-names: "Andrej"
+  doi: "10.1371/journal.pone.0206654"
+  journal: "PLoS ONE"
+  month: 11
+  start: "ee0206654"
+  title: "Predicting CD4 T-cell epitopes based on antigen cleavage, MHCII presentation, and TCR recognition"
+  volume: 13
+  issue: 11
+  year: 2018