Contributer Guide

SeqAn is on GitHub: http://github.com/seqan/seqan

Use the GitHub page to fork SeqAn, create tickets and/or pull requests. You can also follow and like the project there!

Contributing Code or Documentation

If you are unfamiliar with git, you need to learn about it first. See the Atlassian Git Tutoial for an introduction to Git.

Next learn about the specific Git Workflow that we use and how we mark commits:

If you are just changing something small, try to follow the style of whatever you are changing. If you contribute more code, please take the time to read:

SeqAn’s documentation system, called dox, is similar to doxygen, but not identical. Read about it here if you want to contribute documentation (all code should be documented!):