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 ### Publication
 
-![BioRxiv paper](https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.02.10.479822v1)
+[BioRxiv paper](https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.02.10.479822v1)
 
 ![sgcocaller_fig](images/sgcocaller_fig.png)