diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
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@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ To focus on virus-wide exploration, we changed several functions from VIRTUS1.
 - removed the single virus mode
 - added coverage on the viral genome and quality information on the results.
 - removed the default filter for low hit viruses.
-- new visualiztion by VIRTUS_wrapper.py
+- new visualization by VIRTUS_wrapper.py
 
 ## Tutorials