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 Use a phylogenetic tree and a DNA alignment to automatically find and
 add nucleotide sequences from a genetic database, to reproducibly
-improve and advance phylogenetic knowledge in a group.
+improve and advance phylogenetic knowledge within a biological group.
 
 Physcraper relies on
 [taxonomic](https://tree.opentreeoflife.org/about/taxonomy-version/ott3.3)
@@ -115,7 +115,7 @@ Physcraper requires the user to install:
     [10.1186/1471-2105-10-421](https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2105-10-421)
 
 Physcraper relies on the following Python packages that are
-automatically installed:
+<b>automatically</b> installed:
 
   - [argparse](https://docs.python.org/3/library/argparse.html)
   - [biopython](https://biopython.org/) <br> *Cock, P. J., Antao, T.,

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@@ -61,6 +61,3 @@ an algorithmic combination of several source taxonomies, such as:
 - the [NCBI Taxonomy](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK21100/),
 - the Global Biodiversity Information facility [(GBIF) backbone Taxonomy](https://www.gbif.org/), and
 - the [Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera (IRMNG)](https://irmng.org/).
-
-
-<br/>
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@@ -15,7 +15,8 @@ Note that BLAST + is automatically installed when [installing Physcraper using A
 *Camacho, C., Coulouris, G., Avagyan, V. et al. BLAST+: architecture and applications. BMC Bioinformatics 10, 421 (2009).* doi: [10.1186/1471-2105-10-421](https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2105-10-421)
 
 
-Physcraper relies on the following Python packages that are automatically installed:
+Physcraper relies on the following Python packages that are <b>automatically</b>
+ installed:
 
 - [argparse](https://docs.python.org/3/library/argparse.html)
 - [biopython](https://biopython.org/) <br>

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 ## Automated gene tree updating <br> with the Open Tree of Life\!
 
-Use a phylogenetic tree and a DNA alignment to automatically find and add nucleotide sequences from a genetic database, to reproducibly improve and advance phylogenetic knowledge in a group.
+Use a phylogenetic tree and a DNA alignment to automatically find and add nucleotide sequences from a genetic database, to reproducibly improve and advance phylogenetic knowledge within a biological group.
 
 Physcraper relies on [taxonomic](https://tree.opentreeoflife.org/about/taxonomy-version/ott3.3) and [phylogenetic](https://github.com/OpenTreeOfLife/phylesystem-1) resources and [programmatic tools](https://github.com/OpenTreeOfLife/germinator/wiki/Open-Tree-of-Life-Web-APIs) from the [Open Tree of Life](https://tree.opentreeoflife.org/opentree/argus/opentree12.3@ott93302) project.