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 [https://doi.org/10.1186/s12864-020-6635-8](https://doi.org/10.1186/s12864-020-6635-8)
 
 
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 Tracy is distributed under the BSD 3-Clause license. Consult the accompanying [LICENSE](https://github.com/gear-genomics/tracy/blob/master/LICENSE) file for more details.