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+Copyright Andrew Conley and Applied Bioinformatics Laboratory, 2019
+
+PlasmidFinder free for academic users and requires permission before any 
+commercial or government usage use for any version of this code/algorithm. 
+If you are a commercial or governmental user, please contact abil@ihrc.com 
+for permissions.
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