-Feel free to contact me with any questions, comments, suggestions, bug reports, etc.
- - Derek Barnett
-
-http://sourceforge.net/projects/bamtools
+Join the mailing list(s) to stay informed of updates or get involved with
+contributing:
+
+https://github.com/pezmaster31/bamtools/wiki/Mailing-lists
+
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+II. License :
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+Both the BamTools API and toolkit are released under the MIT License.
+Copyright (c) 2009-2010 Derek Barnett, Erik Garrison, Gabor Marth,
+ Michael Stromberg
+
+See included file LICENSE for details.
+
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+III. Acknowledgements :
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+ * Aaron Quinlan for several key feature ideas and bug fix contributions
+ * Baptiste Lepilleur for the public-domain JSON parser (JsonCPP)
+ * Heng Li, author of SAMtools - the original C-language BAM API/toolkit.
+
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+IV. Contact :
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+Feel free to contact me with any questions, comments, suggestions, bug reports,
+ etc.
+
+Derek Barnett
+Marth Lab
+Biology Dept., Boston College
+
+Email: derekwbarnett@gmail.com
+Project Website: http://github.com/pezmaster31/bamtools