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+cff-version: 1.2.0
+message: "If you use this software, please cite it as below."
+authors:
+- name: "MONAI Consortium"
+title: "monai-deploy"
+version: 1.0.0
+doi: # need to create DOI using Zenodo
+date-released: 2022-02-12
+url: "https://github.com/Project-MONAI/monai-deploy"