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 ## Citing
 PanGraph: scalable bacterial pan-genome graph construction
 Nicholas Noll, Marco Molari, Liam P. Shaw, Richard Neher
-bioRxiv 2022.02.24.481757; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.02.24.481757
+Microbial Genomics 9.6 (2023); doi: https://doi.org/10.1099/mgen.0.001034
 
 
 ## License