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http://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1004668

Good, practical resource to supplement what's already in the Howto docs.
Written for a scientist's perspective!
Lots of little easily digestible "boxes" of information. I especially like the following.

Box 5. Being Scooped

One concern scientists frequently have about putting work in progress online is that they will be scooped, e.g., that someone will analyze their data and publish a result that they themselves would have, but hadn’t yet. In practice, though, this happens rarely, if at all: in fact, the authors are not aware of a single case in which this has actually happened, and would welcome pointers to specific instances. In practice, it seems more likely that making work public early in something like a version control repository, which automatically adds timestamps to content, will help researchers establish their priority.

Suggested by @vpbrendel:

• doc/ dir: documentation
• bin/ dir: scripts, executables
• src/ dir: source code requiring compilation
• scratch/ dir: sandbox of things potentially to be integrated elsewhere
• data/ dir: sample data sets

I made a few small additions to the bghandbook.git and want to send out a pull request