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 ### Contributing
 
 Please feel free to submit a pull request with any new features you think would be useful. You can also create an
-issue if you'd just like to propose or discuss a potential idea.
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+issue if you'd just like to propose or discuss a potential idea.
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+### Acknowledgments
+
+Support for the development of this package was provided by the [Finkelstein Laboratory](http://finkelsteinlab.org/).