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@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ Author: Ahmed A. Metwally, Yang Dai, Patricia W. Finn, David L. Perkins
 Maintainer: Ahmed A. Metwally <ametwa2@uic.edu>
 URL: https://github.com/aametwally/MetaLonDA
 BugReports: https://github.com/aametwally/MetaLonDA/issues
-Description: Identify time intervals of differentially abundant metagenomics features in longitudinal studies. (Metwally AA, et. al., Microbiome, 2018 <https://doi.org/10.1186/s40168-018-0402-y>)
+Description: Identify time intervals of differentially abundant metagenomics features in longitudinal studies. (Metwally AA, et al., Microbiome, 2018 <https://doi.org/10.1186/s40168-018-0402-y>)
 License: MIT + file LICENSE
 Depends:
     R(>= 3.2.0)