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 ### CITATIONS
-[1] Howie, B., Sherwood, A. M., et. al. "High-throughput pairing of T cell receptor alpha and beta sequences." Sci. Transl. Med. 7, 301ra131 (2015)
+[1]: Howie, B., Sherwood, A. M., et. al. "High-throughput pairing of T cell receptor alpha and beta sequences." Sci. Transl. Med. 7, 301ra131 (2015)
 [2]: Duan, R. and Su H. "A Scaling Algorithm for Maximum Weight Matching in Bipartite Graphs." (2012)
 
 ### ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS