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 # BacDiveR [![lifecycle](https://img.shields.io/badge/lifecycle-maturing-blue.svg)](https://www.tidyverse.org/lifecycle/#maturing) [![DOI](https://zenodo.org/badge/DOI/10.5281/zenodo.1308060.svg)](https://zenodo.org/record/1308060) [![Travis build status](https://travis-ci.org/TIBHannover/BacDiveR.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/TIBHannover/BacDiveR)
 
-This R package provides a programmatic interface to the [Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase][BD] of the [DSMZ (German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures)][DMSZ]. BacDiveR helps you improve your research on bacteria and archaea by providing access to "structured information on [...] their taxonomy, morphology, physiology, cultivation, geographic origin, application, interaction" and more ([Söhngen et al. 2016](#references)). Specifically, you can:
+This R package provides a programmatic interface to the [Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase][BD] of the [DSMZ (German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures)][DMSZ]. BacDiveR helps you improve your research on bacteria and archaea by providing access to "structured information on [...] their taxonomy, morphology, physiology, cultivation, geographic origin, application, interaction" and more ([Söhngen et al. 2016](https://academic.oup.com/nar/article/44/D1/D581/2503137)). Specifically, you can:
 
 - download the BacDive data you need for offline investigation, and