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 # Obtaining microbial growth temperatures
-The scrips in this repository were used to obtain growth temperatures for microbes deposited in culture collection centers.
+The scrips in this repository were used in a research study to obtain growth temperatures for microbes deposited in culture collection centers. The reference is:
 "Correlating enzyme annotations with a large set of microbial growth temperatures reveals metabolic adaptations to growth at diverse temperatures, by Martin Engqvist (https://doi.org/10.1101/271569 ).
 
 # A note on the the code