As we were organizing analyses for the ExAC flagship paper, we were inspired by Titus Brown’s manifesto on reproducibility. As with most collaborative papers, we had a core team of analysts, each responsible for their subset of analyses and figure panels. Part of the way through, we realized there were many shared features that we wanted to keep consistent across analyses, particularly variant filtering strategies and annotations. We made the decision to organize the code in a central github repository, which the team members could access and edit as analyses progressed. Today, we are happy to release this code, which you can use to reproduce every figure in the paper!

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