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 - Niko Papadopoulos, Fabian Ruperti, Jacob Musser, and Detlev Arendt wrote the manuscript.
 
 ## License
-MIT, probably?
+GPL 3.0
 
 ## Project status
-ongoing
+Directions pursued currently and in the future:
+- rework code, modularize, apply to additional (non-UniProt) species
+- add sequence profiles comparison (profile-sequence, profile-profile searches)
+- confirm existence of HGT candidates on _Spongilla_ genome, address possible mechanisms
+- apply to proteomics data, other cell types