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 An extensive list of references for the tools used by the pipeline can be found in the [`CITATIONS.md`](CITATIONS.md) file.
 
-You can cite the `nf-core` publication as follows:
+We have used nf-cores template to develop this pipeline. You can cite the `nf-core` publication as follows:
 
 > **The nf-core framework for community-curated bioinformatics pipelines.**
 > Philip Ewels, Alexander Peltzer, Sven Fillinger, Harshil Patel, Johannes Alneberg, Andreas Wilm, Maxime Ulysse Garcia, Paolo Di Tommaso & Sven Nahnsen.