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+SHELL=/usr/bin/env bash
+
+compose:
+	bash gff-01-compose_gff.sh
+
+annotate:
+	module load conda
+	# a conda environment that has pandas and can run jupyter notebooks
+	conda activate jupyterhub-5.1.0
+	jupyter nbconvert --to notebook --execute gff-02-annotate.ipynb
+
+conform:
+	bash gff-03-ENA_conform.sh
+
+embl:
+	bash gff-04-convert_to_embl.sh
+
+validate:
+	bash gff-05-submit_to_ENA.sh validate
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