[PRE REVIEW]: OpenOmics: A bioinformatics API to integrate multi-omics datasets and interface with public databases

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Submitting author: @JonnyTran (Nhat Tran) Repository: https://github.com/BioMeCIS-Lab/OpenOmics Version: v0.8.8 Editor: @arfon Reviewers: @arfon Managing EiC: Arfon Smith

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Statistical information for the repository '90afefd9fa19eed3fd6cd13d' was
gathered on 2021/05/05.
The following historical commit information, by author, was found:

Author                     Commits    Insertions      Deletions    % of changes
Jonny Tran                     930         16307          11528           34.34
JonnyTran                      457         27907          24256           64.35
Nhat Tran                        2           110             82            0.24
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Below are the number of rows from each author that have survived and are still
intact in the current revision:

Author                     Rows      Stability          Age       % in comments
Jonny Tran                 3618           22.2         10.5               11.08
JonnyTran                  2335            8.4          7.7               14.26
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Reference check summary (note 'MISSING' DOIs are suggestions that need verification):

OK DOIs

- 10.1093/nar/gky1079 is OK

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- 10.1093/database/bav083 may be a valid DOI for title: LncReg: a reference resource for lncRNA-associated regulatory networks
- 10.1093/database/bat034 may be a valid DOI for title: lncRNome: a comprehensive knowledgebase of human long noncoding RNAs
- 10.1093/nar/gkj147 may be a valid DOI for title: The HUGO gene nomenclature database, 2006 updates
- 10.1017/cbo9780511546198.190 may be a valid DOI for title: Scale-free networks in cell biology
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- 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1005752 may be a valid DOI for title: mixOmics: An R package for ‘omics feature selection and multiple data integration

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