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+**This repository is no longer maintained.
+Please go to the [popins4snake github repository](https://github.com/kehrlab/popins4snake.git) for the updated and maintained program.**
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 # popins4snake
 
 A modularized version of the program [PopIns2](https://github.com/kehrlab/PopIns2) for population-scale detection of non-reference sequence variants.