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**Why are methods so important?**
- Methods are one of the most valuable outputs that researchers create. In many fields, others may be more likely to reuse, and cite, your methods than your data.
- Reproducibility starts with methods. If others don’t know what you did, they can’t reproduce your research.
- We can’t reuse open or FAIR data responsibly if we don’t know how they were generated. We need to share methods along with data to facilitate reuse.
- In addition to improving your own research, this knowledge will help others to reuse your methods and your data responsibly.