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 # ContextSV
-_This is a work in progress, software is under development and not ready for official release._
 
-An alignment-based, generalized structural variant caller for long-read
-sequencing/mapping data.
+Whole-genome structural variant caller for long read sequencing data.
 
 ContextSV takes as input a long read alignments file (BAM), a 
 corresponding reference genome file (FASTA), a VCF file with high-quality SNPs