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 ## Publication
 pending:  
 Lamanna, J.* , Scott, E.Y. * , Edwards, H.* , Chamberlain, M.D., Dryden, M.D.M., Peng, J., Mair, B., Lee, A., Sklavounos, A.A., Abbas, F., Moffat, J. & A.R. Wheeler. "Digital Microfluidic Isolation of Single Cells for - Omics". 2020.  
- * Co-first authors
+ ** Co-first authors
 
 ### Authors of scripts
 Erica Y. Scott: Scripts 1-5 and Figure scripts 1-7