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@@ -22,15 +22,13 @@ libraries in the dist directory in your project.
 Here is a brief overview that will help you to find out
 which ones you need. For questions, you can always contact our mailing list.
 
-org.bridgedb.jar - always needed. 
-    This includes the tab-delimited file driver.
-org.bridgedb.bio.jar - includes the BioDataSource enum, often needed
-org.bridgedb.webservice.cronos.jar - needed for CRONOS webservice
-org.bridgedb.webservice.synergizer.jar - needed for Synergizer webservice
-org.bridgedb.webservice.picr.jar - needed for PICR webservice
-org.bridgedb.server.jar - the BridgeRest SERVER, not needed if you only 
-	want to access BridgeRest or BridgeWebservice as client
-org.bridgedb.tools.batchmapper.jar - Contains the batchmapper command line tool
+ * org.bridgedb.jar - always needed. This includes the tab-delimited file driver.
+ * org.bridgedb.bio.jar - includes the BioDataSource enum, often needed
+ * org.bridgedb.webservice.cronos.jar - needed for CRONOS webservice
+ * org.bridgedb.webservice.synergizer.jar - needed for Synergizer webservice
+ * org.bridgedb.webservice.picr.jar - needed for PICR webservice
+ * org.bridgedb.server.jar - the BridgeRest SERVER, not needed if you only want to access BridgeRest or BridgeWebservice as client
+ * org.bridgedb.tools.batchmapper.jar - Contains the batchmapper command line tool
 
 org.bridgedb.jar and org.bridgedb.bio.jar do not need any other jar files to work.
 Most of the other jar files in dist/ are part of the SOAP libraries needed only for
@@ -49,19 +47,19 @@ Authors
 
 BridgeDb and related tools are developed by (alphabetic order):
 
-Christian Brenninkmeijer
-Jianjiong Gao
-Alasdair Gray
-Isaac Ho
-Martijn van Iersel
-Alex Pico
-Egon Willighagen
+ * Christian Brenninkmeijer
+ * Jianjiong Gao
+ * Alasdair Gray
+ * Isaac Ho
+ * Martijn van Iersel
+ * Alex Pico
+ * Egon Willighagen
 
 The lead teams at this moment are (alphabetic order):
 
-Gladstone Institutes
-Maastricht University
-Manchester University
+ * Gladstone Institutes
+ * Maastricht University
+ * Manchester University
 
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