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 # pal-MEM
-Identifying Reads with Inverted Terminal Repeats from Large Genomes Using Efficient Computation of Maximal Exact Matches
+Identifying inverted repeats in large genomic read files using efficient computation of Maximal Exact Matches (MEMs)
 
 ## DESCRIPTION