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+import os
+
+"""Settings
+"""
+
+# the desired verbosity
+global VERBOSITY
+
+# cwd: The current working directory
+global CWD
+
+# the name of the file to which we're writing the log files
+global LOG_FOLDER
+
+# the name of the file to which we're writing the logs
+# (If left to the default value of None, we don't write to a file)
+global LOG_FILENAME
+
+# the name of the gene the code is processing
+global GENE
+
+VERBOSITY = 1
+CWD = os.path.abspath(os.getcwd())
+LOG_FOLDER = os.path.join(CWD, "../logs")
+LOG_FILENAME = None
+GENE = None