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Using Git
Git is a versioning control system that allows tracking of changes, collaboration and backups of previous versions, amongst other benefits.
Git is a very commonly used way of working together on programming projects. It allows contributors to a project to submit their changes, track what has changed and have it reviewed by others. To learn the basics of why and how to use Git, complete this tutorial:
Go to GIT fundamentals (hosted on GitLab by EMBL Bio-IT)
Other computation skills can also be useful for biocurators, in the next section we’ll learn about text mining and discover some examples of how text mining has been used in curation efforts.