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-  <strong>Visit Galaxy <a target="_blank" href="http://meetings.cshl.edu/meetings/abstracts/2007info_absstat.html">Talk and Posters</a> at the Genome Informatics Meeting in Cold Spring Harbor (November 1 - 5, 2007)</strong>
+  <strong>Galaxy is a free public resource bringing genome-scale data within the reach of experimentalists.</strong>
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   Download Galaxy brochure <a href="/static/images/brochure.pdf">here</a>.
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-  Pink Ladyslipper orchid (Cypripedium acaule | Pennsylvania, USA
+  Pink Ladyslipper orchid (Cypripedium acaule) | Pennsylvania, USA
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