# Citation and Acknowledgement

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**For citation of BDC:**

National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (2020). The NHLBI BioData Catalyst. Zenodo. <https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3822858>

**To acknowledge BDC, use:**

The authors wish to acknowledge the contributions of the consortium working on the development of the NHLBI BioData Catalyst® (BDC) ecosystem.