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 ## Overview
 
-HCV-GLUE is a sequence-oriented resource for comparative genomic analysis of hepatitis C virus (HCV), developed using the [GLUE](https://github.com/giffordlabcvr/gluetools) software framework. It includes a web interface that can be used to create a HCV-GLUE web-server.
+HCV-GLUE is a sequence-oriented resource for comparative genomic analysis of hepatitis C virus (HCV), developed using the [GLUE](https://github.com/giffordlabcvr/gluetools) software framework. It includes a web interface that can be used to create an HCV-GLUE web-server.
 
 HCV-GLUE contains HCV feature definitions, annotated reference sequences for all HCV genotypes and subtypes, and heirarchically ordered multiple sequence alignments.