diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
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+# History files
+.Rhistory
+.Rapp.history
+
+# Session Data files
+.RData
+
+# User-specific files
+.Ruserdata
+
+# Example code in package build process
+*-Ex.R
+
+# Output files from R CMD build
+/*.tar.gz
+
+# Output files from R CMD check
+/*.Rcheck/
+
+# RStudio files
+.Rproj.user/
+
+# produced vignettes
+vignettes/*.html
+vignettes/*.pdf
+
+# OAuth2 token, see https://github.com/hadley/httr/releases/tag/v0.3
+.httr-oauth
+
+# knitr and R markdown default cache directories
+*_cache/
+/cache/
+
+# Temporary files created by R markdown
+*.utf8.md
+*.knit.md
+
+# R Environment Variables
+.Renviron
diff --git a/LICENSE b/LICENSE
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+MIT License
+
+Copyright (c) 2021 Tommaso Andreani
+
+Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
+of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
+in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
+to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
+copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
+furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
+
+The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all
+copies or substantial portions of the Software.
+
+THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
+IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
+FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
+AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
+LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
+OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE
+SOFTWARE.
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+# scBCR
+Benchmarking computational methods for B cell receptor reconstruction from single cell RNA-seq data