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Manual Whisker Annotator (MWA): A Modular Open-Source Tool

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|Apr 2016

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/jors.93 | Journal eISSN: 2049-9647
Language: English
Published on: Apr 28, 2016
Published by: Ubiquity Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 1 issue per year

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