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+# Description:
 Analysis of  SRRM2, SON, PRPF8, SRRM1, RBM25, Pinin and Coilin orthologues
 
-# contents:
-data
-results
-fig
+# Contents:
+- data - generally data files
+  - genbank - primary sequence dataset in genbank format
+  - genbank_final - final sequence dataset in genbank format
+  - mobiDB - fasta sequence datasets and MobiDB-Lite results
+  - NCBI_ortholog - vertebrate orthologues lists in .csv from NCBI ortholog resource
+  - orthofinder - list of accession numbers for additional species obtained through Orthofinder2 analysis
+- results - results in tabular format
+- fig - figures
 
 Notebooks:
 - dataset preparation and length comparison