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 ## v1.1dev
 
 * Add --saveInteractionBAM option
+* Add DOI (#29)
 * Fix bug for reads extension _1/_2 (#30)
 * Update manual (#28)
 
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 ![Singularity Container available](
 https://img.shields.io/badge/singularity-available-7E4C74.svg)
 
+[![DOI](https://zenodo.org/badge/156259074.svg)](https://zenodo.org/badge/latestdoi/156259074)
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 ### Introduction
 This pipeline is based on the [HiC-Pro workflow](https://github.com/nservant/HiC-Pro).
 It was designed to process Hi-C data from raw fastq files (paired-end Illumina data) to normalized contact maps.
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 ### Credits
 nf-core/hic was originally written by Nicolas Servant.
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+If you use nf-core/hic for your analysis, please cite it using the following doi: [10.5281/zenodo.2669513](https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.2669513)
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+You can cite the `nf-core` pre-print as follows:  
+Ewels PA, Peltzer A, Fillinger S, Alneberg JA, Patel H, Wilm A, Garcia MU, Di Tommaso P, Nahnsen S. **nf-core: Community curated bioinformatics pipelines**. *bioRxiv*. 2019. p. 610741. [doi: 10.1101/610741](https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/610741v1).
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