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 *local: these steps are executed on the local machine, even when the pipeline is run in cluster mode
 
-** The description given in this README hardly describes the case of potential internal priming events to due priming to A-rich regions around the poly(A) signal. Please refer to the accompanying publication to get more details for this case.
+** The description given in this README hardly describes the case of potential internal priming events due to priming to A-rich regions around the poly(A) signal. Please refer to the accompanying publication to get more details for this case.