To cite the 'minerva' package in publications use:

Albanese D, Filosi M, Visintainer R, Riccadonna S, Jurman G, Furlanello C (2012). “Minerva and minepy: a C engine for the MINE suite and its R, Python and MATLAB wrappers.” Bioinformatics, 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},
  }