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Citing and Citations
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This section gives instructions on how to cite Snakemake and lists citing articles.


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Citing Snakemake
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When using Snakemake for a publication, **please cite the following article** in you paper:

`Mölder, F., Jablonski, K.P., Letcher, B., Hall, M.B., Tomkins-Tinch, C.H., Sochat, V., Forster, J., Lee, S., Twardziok, S.O., Kanitz, A., Wilm, A., Holtgrewe, M., Rahmann, S., Nahnsen, S., Köster, J., 2021. Sustainable data analysis with Snakemake. F1000Res 10, 33. <https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.29032.1>`_

This "rolling" paper will be regularly updated when Snakemake receives new features.

More References
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The initial Snakemake publication was:

`Köster, Johannes and Rahmann, Sven. "Snakemake - A scalable bioinformatics workflow engine". Bioinformatics 2012. <https://bioinformatics.oxfordjournals.org/content/28/19/2520>`_

Another publication describing more of Snakemake internals:

`Köster, Johannes and Rahmann, Sven. "Building and Documenting Bioinformatics Workflows with Python-based Snakemake". Proceedings of the GCB 2012. <https://drops.dagstuhl.de/opus/volltexte/oasics-complete/oasics-vol26-gcb2012-complete.pdf>`_

And my PhD thesis which describes all algorithmic details as of 2015:

`Johannes Köster, "Parallelization, Scalability, and Reproducibility in Next-Generation Sequencing Analysis", TU Dortmund 2014 <https://hdl.handle.net/2003/33940>`_

The most comprehensive publication is our "rolling" paper (see above):

`Mölder, F., Jablonski, K.P., Letcher, B., Hall, M.B., Tomkins-Tinch, C.H., Sochat, V., Forster, J., Lee, S., Twardziok, S.O., Kanitz, A., Wilm, A., Holtgrewe, M., Rahmann, S., Nahnsen, S., Köster, J., 2021. Sustainable data analysis with Snakemake. F1000Res 10, 33. <https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.29032.1>`_


Project Pages
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If you publish a Snakemake workflow, consider to add this badge to your project page:

.. image:: https://img.shields.io/badge/snakemake-≥5.6.0-brightgreen.svg?style=flat
   :target: https://snakemake.readthedocs.io

The markdown syntax is

.. sourcecode:: text

    [![Snakemake](https://img.shields.io/badge/snakemake-≥5.6.0-brightgreen.svg?style=flat)](https://snakemake.readthedocs.io)

Replace the ``5.6.0`` with the minimum required Snakemake version.
You can also `change the style <https://shields.io/#styles>`_.