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 [![DOI](https://joss.theoj.org/papers/10.21105/joss.03394/status.svg)](https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.03394)
 
-It is a fork - that has been detached from the original ImSwitch fork: https://github.com/ImSwitch/ImSwitch
+This is a fork that has diverged from the original ImSwitch repository: https://github.com/ImSwitch/ImSwitch
 
 ``ImSwitch`` is a software solution in Python that aims at generalizing microscope control by using an architecture based on the model-view-presenter (MVP) to provide a solution for flexible control of multiple microscope modalities.