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 # regional-mom6
 
-*Python package for automatic generation of regional configurations for the [Modular Ocean Model version 6](https://github.com/mom-ocean/MOM6) (MOM6).*
+*Python package for automatic generation of regional configurations for the [Modular Ocean Model version 6](https://github.com/mom-ocean/MOM6) (MOM6)*
 
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