diff --git a/.gitattributes b/.gitattributes
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7c959a54377b7031548f822e13a495ee97184bb7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.gitattributes
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+**/dataset/** filter=lfs diff=lfs merge=lfs -text
+**/dataset/* filter=lfs diff=lfs merge=lfs -text
+*.xlsx diff=ssdiff merge=binary
+**/dataset/**/* filter=lfs diff=lfs merge=lfs -text
+*.fq.gz filter=lfs diff=lfs merge=lfs -text
diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..fc3c48a9d445f26e678cdc340bda6bac5e9236e2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+unstructured/*
+**/*~lock*
+**/*tachyon*