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 ### cytoolz
 
-Lots of useful functions for functionnal programming fun, hopefully faster than pytoolz.
+Lots of useful functions for functional programming fun, hopefully faster than pytoolz.
 
 The documentation is that of pytoolz: <https://toolz.readthedocs.io/en/latest/>
 
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 ### mappy
 
-I use its fast fata / fastq parser:
+I use its fast fasta / fastq parser:
 
 ```{python}
 from mappy import fastx_read
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 ### parasail
 
-To perform pairwise sequence alignemnt.
+To perform pairwise sequence alignment.
 
 URL: <https://github.com/jeffdaily/parasail-python>
 
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 For population genetics.
 
-URL: <https://scikit-allel.readthedocs.io/en/stable/index.html>
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