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@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ If you find Bombcell useful in your work, we kindly request that you cite:
 
 > Julie M.J. Fabre, Enny H. van Beest, Andrew J. Peters, Matteo Carandini, & Kenneth D. Harris. (2023). Bombcell: automated curation and cell classification of spike-sorted electrophysiology data. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8172821
 
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