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 The pipeline is based on the [nf-core/hic](https://github.com/nf-core/hic) pipeline and the [hicstuff](https://github.com/koszullab/hicstuff) pipeline.
 It is split into two workflows for now, named `hicpro` and `hicstuff`.
 
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 ## Workflow summary (hicpro)
 
 1. Read QC ([`FastQC`](https://www.bioinformatics.babraham.ac.uk/projects/fastqc/))