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 # OpenFDA BigData Pipeline
 
-**OpenFDA BigData Pipeline** enables collection, processing, and real-time presentation of data - on adverse drug events from the [openFDA](https://open.fda.gov/apis/drug/) project database.
+**OpenFDA BigData Pipeline** enables collection, processing, and real-time presentation of data - on adverse drug events from the [openFDA](https://open.fda.gov/apis/drug/) database.
 
 The solution uses [Apache Kafka](https://kafka.apache.org/) as a message broker, [Mongo DB](https://www.mongodb.com) as a document storage, [Spring Boot](https://spring.io/projects/spring-boot) for services and is Dockerized.
 
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 ## Issues and contribution
 
 Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/koziolk/openfda-bigdata-pipeline
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-## License
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-**OpenFDA Bigdata Pipeline** is published under [Apache License 2.0](http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0).
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