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-``bedtools slop`` will increase the size of each feature in a feature file be a 
+``bedtools slop`` will increase the size of each feature in a feature file by a 
 user-defined number of bases. While something like this could be done with an 
 ``awk '{OFS="\t" print $1,$2-<slop>,$3+<slop>}'``,
 ``bedtools slop`` will restrict the resizing to the size of the chromosome