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 For information about how to contribute to the documentation or the package, visit the [Contributing](./contributing.md) page.
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+To read a full description of the Connectome Annotation Versioning Engine, including a description of the various services please [read this paper](https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.07.26.550598v1).
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