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-# Automated scholarly manuscripts on GitHub
+# Democratizing knowledge representation with BioCypher
 
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-This repository is a template manuscript (a.k.a. rootstock).
-Actual manuscript instances will clone this repository (see [`SETUP.md`](SETUP.md)) and replace this paragraph with a description of their manuscript.
+This repository contains the code to generate the self-archived version of the
+BioCypher paper (on Zenodo).
 
 ## Manubot