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 message: "If you use this software, please cite it as below."
 authors:
 - family-names: "ELIXIR"
-  given-names: "ELIXIR"
-
 title: "RDMkit:The Research Data Management toolkit for Life Sciences"
 version: 2.0.0
 doi: 10.5281/zenodo.5110060