To cite the 'minerva' package in publications use:

Albanese, Davide, et al. Minerva and minepy: a C engine for the MINE suite and its R, Python and MATLAB wrappers. Bioinformatics (2012): bts707

Corresponding BibTeX entry:

  @Article{,
    title = {Minerva and minepy: a C engine for the MINE suite and its
      R, Python and MATLAB wrappers},
    author = {Davide Albanese and Michele Filosi and Roberto
      Visintainer and Samantha Riccadonna and Giuseppe Jurman and
      Cesare Furlanello},
    journal = {Bioinformatics},
    pages = {bts707},
    year = {2012},
    publisher = {Oxford Univ Press},
  }