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 # mhcflurry
 [MHC I](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Major_histocompatibility_complex) ligand
 prediction package with competitive accuracy and a fast and 
-[documented](http://www.hammerlab.org/mhcflurry/) open source codebase.
+[documented](http://www.hammerlab.org/mhcflurry/) implementation.
 
 MHCflurry supports Class I peptide/MHC binding affinity prediction using
 ensembles of allele-specific models. It runs on Python versions 2.7 and 3.4+ using