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 To run WARIO to characterize an ensemble, the user can directly execute the [contact_clustering](https://gitlab.laas.fr/moma/WARIO/-/blob/main/wario/contact_clustering.ipynb) notebook, which contains the detailed pipeline and allows a step-by-step implementation of the tool.
 
+#### The paper
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+The complete and detailed presentation of the method is available in the WARIO paper: [https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-4149901/v1](https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-4149901/v1).
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 ## Installing WARIO
 
 WARIO and its required dependencies can be automatically installed if Python >=3.8 is available. We recommend to perform the installation inside a [Python virtual environment](https://packaging.python.org/en/latest/guides/installing-using-pip-and-virtual-environments/). It can be created as follows