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@@ -24,4 +24,4 @@ The following is a guide to the code and data used for data analysis, model simu
     used to paramterize the stochastic differentiation model and simulate the dynamics given the light sequence
     (included as csv files).
     The matlab code is separated for integrated and plasmid strain. 
-    Matlab code requires the signal processing toolbox.
+    Matlab code requires the statistics toolbox.