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 ## Analysis and figure scripts for [1-3]
 
 The `figures` folder contains a subfolder with all scripts necessary to produce
-the figures from [1--3]. If Snakemake (Köster J & Rahmann S, Bioinformatics (2012) 28(19): 2520-2522) 
+the figures from [1-3]. If Snakemake (Köster J & Rahmann S, Bioinformatics (2012) 28(19): 2520-2522) 
 is installed, the figures can be produced by executing
 `snakemake` in the respective folder, e.g.: