diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
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+data
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
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+# topN_generator
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+wget --no-check-certificate -P data -nc ftp://ftp.mcs.anl.gov/pub/candle/public/benchmarks/Pilot1/combo/combined_rnaseq_data_lincs1000_combat
+wget --no-check-certificate -P data -nc ftp://ftp.mcs.anl.gov/pub/candle/public/benchmarks/Pilot1/combo/combined_single_response_agg 
+# wget --no-check-certificate ftp://ftp.mcs.anl.gov/pub/candle/public/benchmarks/Pilot1/combo/