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@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ The distance value for each protein pair filtered by PANTHERdb class is included
 
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-```tree
+```python
 embeddings/
 ├── Global_embedding.ipynb 
 │   └── **Script to execute protein sequence embedding retrieval for all methods**