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Solve the following problem using Python, implementing the functions described below, one line at a time
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Description:
 def normalize_init_values(cls, release, species, server):
 """ Normalizes the arguments which uniquely specify an EnsemblRelease genome. """

        release = check_release_number(release)
        species = check_species_object(species)
        return (release, species, server)