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Ten simple rules for optimal and careful use of generative AI in science

• Mohamed Helmy ,

  * E-mail: mohamed.helmy@usask.ca

  Affiliations Vaccine and Infectious Diseases Organization (VIDO), University of Saskatchewan, Saskatchewan, Canada, Vaccinology and Immunotherapeutics Program, School of Public Health, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatchewan, Canada, Department of Computer Science, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatchewan, Canada, Department of Computer Science, Idaho State University, Boise, Idaho, United States of America, Bioinformatics Institute (BII), Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore, Republic of Singapore

  ORCID logo https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9561-7956

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• Lingling Jin,

  Affiliation Department of Computer Science, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatchewan, Canada

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• Amr Alhossary,

  Affiliation Chemistry Department, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut, United States of America

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• Tamer Mansour,

  Affiliations Department of Population Health and Reproduction, University of California, Davis, California, United States of America, Department of Clinical Pathology, College of Medicine, Mansoura University, Mansoura, Egypt

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• Diogo Pellagrina,

  Affiliation Vaccine and Infectious Diseases Organization (VIDO), University of Saskatchewan, Saskatchewan, Canada

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• Kumar Selvarajoo

  Affiliations Bioinformatics Institute (BII), Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore, Republic of Singapore, Synthetic Biology Translational Research Program, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore, Republic of Singapore, Synthetic Biology for Clinical and Technological Innovation (SynCTI), National University of Singapore (NUS), Centre for Life Sciences #02-07, Singapore, Republic of Singapore, School of Biological Sciences, Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore, Republic of Singapore

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