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README.md

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 <a href="https://wsphillips.github.io/Conductor.jl/dev">
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+![L-BFGS Optimization](./lbfgs_stgneuron.gif)
 Conductor.jl aims to be a platform for quickly and flexibly building high-performance,
 multi-scale neuronal network models in Julia. Under the hood it's being built on top of
 ModelingToolkit.jl--so all the tools available in the SciML and DiffEq ecosystem are (or
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 ]add Conductor
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-While Conductor.jl is still in early development, you can get a feel for what's going on by looking in
+You can get a feel for what's going on by looking in
 the `demo` directory of this repository. Clone the repository:
 
 ```
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 ## Acknowledgements
 
 Conductor.jl is based on the acausal component modeling paradigm in
-[ModelingToolkit.jl](https://github.com/SciML/ModelingToolkit.jl). The initial draft of
-Conductor.jl was derived from an implementation of a stomatogastric ganglion (STG) model,
+[ModelingToolkit.jl](https://github.com/SciML/ModelingToolkit.jl). The project began with an implementation of a stomatogastric ganglion (STG) model,
 which was written in Julia by [Dhruva Raman](http://www-control.eng.cam.ac.uk/Main/DhruvaRaman), and based on published works by [Astrid Prinz](http://www.biology.emory.edu/research/Prinz/) et
 al.
 
-The original Julia/ModelingToolkit STG model template: [NeuronBuilder.jl](https://github.com/Dhruva2/NeuronBuilder)
+The original Julia STG model: [NeuronBuilder.jl](https://github.com/Dhruva2/NeuronBuilder)
 
 STG model papers: