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 experimentation with formal representations of missing data
 
+This repos starts off with a schema about people. It will be changed to a light subset of MIxS 6.2, with explicit handling of missing values.
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 ## Website
 
 [https://GenomicsStandardsConsortium.github.io/mixs-missing-value-sandbox](https://GenomicsStandardsConsortium.github.io/mixs-missing-value-sandbox)