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        <h1>Portable Encapsulated Projects</h1>
        <p>A modern structure and open toolkit for organizing large-scale, sample-intensive biological research projects.
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            <h2 class="header-light regular-pad">What is a PEP?</h2>
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              <p>A <i>PEP</i>, or <i>Portable Encapsulated Project</i>, is a dataset that subscribes to the PEP structure for organizing metadata. It is written using a simple <b>yaml + tsv</b> format that can be read by tools in the pep toolkit, including universal R and Python packages. pepkit is your one-stop solution to <b>metadata management</b> across data analysis environments.</p>
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            <h3 class="text-center">Data analysts</h3>
            <p>Start by describing your project metadata in PEP format, and immediately benefit from metadata organization tools written in either R or Python.</p>
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            <p>Outsource sample metadata formatting and parsing by using our R or Python APIs, making your tool immediately applicable to any PEP-compliant project.</p>
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