Chapter 1 About this book

This book is an open source document. The book is built using the bookdown package (Xie 2019) in R, and pandoc.

We invite you to provide us with any feedback or comments that you may have by sending an email to andrew.apostoli@mail.utoronto.ca or adam.martin@utoronto.ca. Please note that any contributions must be licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. For more information, see “License” (1.2) below.

1.1 Contributors

This project is coordinated by Andrew Apostoli, and Adam Martin. Two laboratory technicians, Tom Meulendyk and Chai Chen, have also provided us with great feedback and suggestions. This book is the successor to the 2015-2018 lab manuals that were written by Carl Mitchell and Keane Tirona.

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References

Xie, Yihui. 2019. Bookdown: Authoring Books and Technical Documents with R Markdown. https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=bookdown.