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+# TrackMate-Pairing
+
+A tool that allows for pairing together two [TrackMate](https://github.com/trackmate-sc/TrackMate) files, based on several distance metrics. 
+It builds pairs taken from the tracks of one file and the tracks of a second file. 
+This is used mainly to study how the distance of objects detected in two different channels evolve over time.