Credit & citation

Contributing a patch gets your name into a few real places. Here’s what that means and what it doesn’t.

What you get

  • CITATION.cff contributors field: separate from authors. GitHub’s “Cite this repository” button, Zotero, and Zenodo all pull from this. (Created on the first merged external contribution; until then CITATION.cff carries only the authors list.)
  • contributors.md: a human-readable list in the repo root, with the patches you authored. (Added alongside the first merged external contribution.)
  • Per-release Zenodo DOI: every release tag triggers a Zenodo upload; your name is in the metadata for every version that includes your patch.
  • Patch catalog & benchmarks: the patch catalog and benchmarks page link each row back to your GitHub profile and PR.

Citing AutoZyme (as a user)

Cite the preprint:

@article{xie2026autozyme,
  title   = {AutoZyme: An Autonomous Agentic Framework to Optimize Bioinformatics Software},
  author  = {Xie, Elliot and Cheng, Lingxin and Cai, Yujia and Shireman, Jack and Kendziorski, Christina},
  journal = {bioRxiv},
  year    = {2026},
  doi     = {10.64898/2026.06.12.731250},
  url     = {https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.06.12.731250v1}
}

Preprint: bioRxiv · doi:10.64898/2026.06.12.731250

Software releases will also carry a Zenodo DOI once packages are published.

For credit or citation updates, contact [email protected].