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 # Treemmer
 
 
-A tool to to reduce large phylogenetic datasets with minimal loss of diversity.
+A tool to reduce large phylogenetic datasets with minimal loss of diversity.
 
 Here you find the software, the data and scripts used in the manuscript (Influenza_data, MTB_data and stochastic_component), and a short tutorial on fine tuning the behaviour of Treemmer with the pruning options.
 
+If you use Treemmer please cite:
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+Menardo et al. (2018). Treemmer: a tool to reduce large phylogenetic datasets with minimal loss of diversity. BMC Bioinformatics (in press).
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 Check also treemmer-animate, a script by Thomas Hackl to visualize the "treemming" process: https://github.com/thackl/treemmer-animate