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 Download the Arioc user guide [here](https://github.com/RWilton/Arioc/blob/master/Arioc.guide.pdf "Arioc user guide") or as part of the current release.
 
 #### Arioc-encoded reference genomes
-The Arioc aligners use binary encoded lookup tables as reference genome indexes. For convenience, several Arioc-encoded genomes are available for download at [ftp://ftp.ccb.jhu.edu/pub/data/Arioc](https://tinyurl.com/AriocFTP), the FTP server of the [Center for Computational Biology](http://www.ccb.jhu.edu) at Johns Hopkins University:
+The Arioc aligners use binary encoded lookup tables as reference genome indexes. For convenience, several Arioc-encoded reference genomes are available for download at [ftp://ftp.ccb.jhu.edu/pub/data/Arioc](https://tinyurl.com/AriocFTP), the FTP server of the [Center for Computational Biology](http://www.ccb.jhu.edu) at Johns Hopkins University:
 
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