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 # FASTA2AGP
 
-_FASTA2AGP_ is a command line program written in [Java](https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/technotes/guides/language/index.html) that allows creating [AGP](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/assembly/agp/AGP_Specification/) and contig sequence files from a FASTA-formatted scaffold sequence file.
+_FASTA2AGP_ is a command line program written in [Java](https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/technotes/guides/language/index.html) that allows creating [AGP](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/assembly/agp/AGP_Specification/) and associated contig sequence files from a FASTA-formatted scaffold sequence file.
 
 ## Compilation and execution