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 An updated meta PKN is available with the package (using data(meta_network) in R)
 
 ## Citation
-If you use cosmosR for your research please cite the [original publication](https://www.embopress.org/doi/full/10.15252/msb.20209730): 
+If you use cosmosR for your research please cite [COSMOS+ preprint](https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.07.15.603538v2)
+Dugourd A, Lafrenz P, Mañanes D, Fallegger R, Kroger AC, Turei D, Shtylla B, Saez-Rodriguez J; Modeling causal signal propagation in multi-omic factor space with COSMOS; BioRxiv. 2024 Jul 17
+DOI: 10.1101/2024.07.15.603538
 
-> Dugourd A, Kuppe C, Sciacovelli M, Gjerga E, Gabor A, Emdal KB, Vieira V, Bekker-Jensen DB, Kranz J, Bindels EMJ, Jesper V Olsen, Christian Frezza, Rafael Kramann, Julio Saez-Rodriguez et al (2021) Causal integration of multi-omics data with prior knowledge to generate mechanistic hypotheses. Mol Syst Biol 17: e9730
+The first publication of COSMOS is MSB can be found [here](https://www.embopress.org/doi/full/10.15252/msb.20209730): 
 
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