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As part of the Nature Portfolio, the Nature Research journals follow common policies as detailed in the Nature Portfolio journals’ authors and referees policy pages, and we request that our

authors and referees abide by all of them. Nature Portfolio journals take publication conduct seriously. We reserve the right to decline publication of a paper even after it has been

accepted if it becomes apparent that there are serious problems with the scientific content or violations of our publishing policies. Particularly, we want to draw your attention to the

following policies and guidelines. BEFORE SUBMISSION All prospective authors should read and follow these policies: OVERLAPPING SUBMISSIONS When you submit a manuscript to _Nature Machine

Intelligence_ its content must not significantly overlap with any other papers from you or your co-authors’ groups that are under consideration or in press at other journals, with the

exception of conference abstracts. We do, however, support the posting of preprints; you can find out more here.               RELATED MANUSCRIPTS If you submit a related manuscript to any

other journal while the submission to _Nature Machine Intelligence_ is under consideration, you must send us a copy of the related manuscript and details of its progress towards publication.

BEFORE PEER REVIEW If we send your manuscript out for peer review, we will ask you for more information to help ensure that you comply with our policies and reporting standards; what we

require may vary depending on the journal you are submitting to. IN ALL CASES, THE CORRESPONDING AUTHOR WILL RECEIVE AN EMAIL FROM THE JOURNAL EDITOR DETAILING WHICH DOCUMENTS FROM THE LIST

BELOW NEED TO BE COMPLETED. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ _FOR ALL MANUSCRIPTS_ Editorial Policy Checklist This

ensures compliance with our editorial policies related to research ethics and reproducibility, as well as competing interests, authorship, data and code availability.

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_FOR MANUSCRIPTS IN THE CLINICAL SCIENCES_ Clinical Research guidelines Nature Portfolio follows the recommendations from the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) and

the Enhancing the QUAlity and Transparency Of health Research (EQUATOR) Network for registration and reporting clinical studies.

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specific areas should provide details of characterization, or experimental and analytical design in a reporting summary.

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