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@@ -4,24 +4,24 @@ This repository provides Matlab files to perform simulations as described in
 *Mechanical models of pattern and form in biological tissues: the role of stress-strain constitutive equations*
 by *C. Villa, M.A.J. Chaplain, A. Gerisch, T. Lorenzi*
 and to appear in *Bullettin of Mathematical Biology* (2021).
-For details we refer the intereseted reader to this publication and its supplementary material.
+For details we refer the interested reader to this publication and its supplementary material.
 
-If you use this software in your work then please cite the above name paper.
+If you use this software in your work then please cite the above named paper.
 
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-% VillaEtAl2021BullMathBio: simulate mechanical models of pattern formation%
-% Copyright (C) 2021 C. Villa and A. Gerisch                               %
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-% This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify     %
-% it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by     %
-% the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or        %
-% (at your option) any later version.                                      %
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-% This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,          %
-% but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of           %
-% MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the            %
-% GNU General Public License for more details.                             %
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-% You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License        %
-% along with this program.  If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.   %
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+## Copyright notice
+
+VillaEtAl2021BullMathBio: simulate mechanical models of pattern formation   
+Copyright (C) 2021 C. Villa and A. Gerisch
+
+This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+(at your option) any later version.
+
+This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+GNU General Public License for more details.
+
+You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+along with this program.  If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.