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 # Citations
-Marek Kokot*, Roozbeh Dehghannasiri*, Tavor Baharav, Julia Salzman, and Sebastian Deorowicz.
-[SPLASH2 provides ultra-efficient, scalable, and unsupervised discovery on raw sequencing reads](https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.03.17.533189) 
-bioRxiv (2023)
  
 Kaitlin Chaung*, Tavor Baharav*, George Henderson, Ivan Zheludev, Peter Wang, Julia Salzman. [SPLASH: a statistical, reference-free genomic algorithm unifies biological discovery
 ](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2023.10.028), Cell (2023)