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+# Contributors
+
+The following individuals have contributed code to Galaxy:
+
+* Enis Afgan <afgane@gmail.com>
+* Istvan Albert <istvan.albert@gmail.com>
+* Renato Alves <alves.rjc@gmail.com> <rjalves@igc.gulbenkian.pt>
+* Guruprasad Ananda <gua110@bx.psu.edu>
+* Florent Angly <florent.angly@gmail.com>
+* Raj Ayyampalayam <raj76@uga.edu>
+* Finn Bacall <finn.bacall@cs.man.ac.uk>
+* Dannon Baker <dannon.baker@gmail.com>
+* Christopher Bare <christopherbare@gmail.com>
+* Dan Blanchard <dan.blanchard@gmail.com>
+* Daniel Blankenberg <dan.blankenberg@gmail.com> <dan@bx.psu.edu>
+* James Boocock <sfk2001@gmail.com>
+* Carlos Borroto <carlos.borroto@gmail.com>
+* Daniel Bouchard <dbouchard@corefacility.ca> <daniel.bouchard@phac-aspc.gc.ca>
+* Dave Bouvier <dave@bx.psu.edu>
+* Adam Brenner <aebrenne@uci.edu>
+* Anthony Bretaudeau <anthony.bretaudeau@rennes.inra.fr> <abretaud@irisa.fr>
+* Richard Burhans <burhans@bx.psu.edu>
+* Jennifer Cabral <jencabral@gmail.com>
+* Martin Čech <marten@bx.psu.edu>
+* Ramkrishna Chakrabarty <rc@bx.psu.edu>
+* Brad Chapman <chapmanb@50mail.com>
+* John Chilton <jmchilton@gmail.com>
+* Saket Choudhary <saketkc@gmail.com>
+* Wen-Yu Chung <wychung@bx.psu.edu>
+* Dave Clements <clements@galaxyproject.org>
+* Peter Cock <p.j.a.cock@googlemail.com>
+* Ira Cooke <iracooke@gmail.com>
+* Nate Coraor <nate@bx.psu.edu>
+* Michael Cotterell <mepcotterell@gmail.com>
+* Gianmauro Cuccuru <gmauro@crs4.it>
+* Frederik Delaere <frederik.delaere@gmail.com>
+* Olivia Doppelt <olivia.doppelt@pasteur.fr>
+* John Duddy <jduddy@illumina.com>
+* Carl Eberhard <carlfeberhard@gmail.com>
+* Kyle Ellrott <kellrott@gmail.com> <kellrott@soe.ucsc.edu>
+* Eric Enns <eric.enns@gmail.com>
+* Dorine Francheteau <dorine@bx.psu.edu>
+* Jaime Frey <jfrey@cs.wisc.edu>
+* Carie Genote <cganote@iu.edu>
+* Jeremy Goecks <jeremy.goecks@emory.edu> <jgoecks@gwu.edu>
+* Nuwan Goonasekera <nuwan.goonasekera@gmail.com>
+* Björn Grüning <bjoern.gruening@gmail.com> <bjoern@gruenings.eu>
+* Aysam Guerler <aysam.guerler@gmail.com>
+* Simon Guest <simon.guest@agresearch.co.nz>
+* Jianbin He <jbhe@bx.psu.edu>
+* Morita Hideyuki <h-morita@esm.co.jp>
+* Rob Hooft <rob.hooft@nbic.nl>
+* Y. Hoogstrate <y.hoogstrate@erasmusmc.nl>
+* Jian-Long Huang <jlh@pyhub.org>
+* Gert Hulselmans <gert.hulselmans@med.kuleuven.be>
+* Jennifer Jackson <jen@bx.psu.edu>
+* Joachim Jacob <joachim.jacob@gmail.com>
+* Jim Johnson <jj@umn.edu> <jj@msi.umn.edu>
+* Radhesh Kamath <radhesh@bx.psu.edu>
+* Jan Kanis <jan.code@jankanis.nl>
+* David King <dcking@bx.psu.edu>
+* Rory Kirchner <roryk@mit.edu>
+* Brad Langhorst <langhorst@neb.com>
+* Ross Lazarus <ross.lazarus@gmail.com> <rossl@bx.psu.edu>
+* Simone Leo <simone.leo@gmail.com>
+* Kanwei Li <kanwei@gmail.com>
+* Michael Li <michael.li@uwaterloo.ca>
+* Philip Mabon <philipmabon@gmail.com>
+* Remi Marenco <remi.marenco@gmail.com> <remimarenco@gmail.com>
+* Thomas McGowan <mcgo0092@msi.umn.edu>
+* Scott McManus <scottmcmanus@emory.edu> <scottmcmanus@gatech.edu>
+* Hunter Moseley <hunter.moseley@louisville.edu>
+* Arjun Nath <arjun@bx.psu.edu>
+* Anton Nekrutenko <anton@bx.psu.edu> <anton@nekrut.org>
+* Eric Paniagua <paniagua.cshl@gmail.com>
+* Richard Park <rpark@bu.edu>
+* Lance Parsons <lparsons@princeton.edu>
+* Chinmay Rao <chinmay@bx.psu.edu>
+* Eric Rasche <esr@tamu.edu> <rasche.eric@gmail.com> <rasche.eric@yandex.ru>
+* Andrew Robinson <Andrew.Robinson@latrobe.edu.au>
+* Andrea Sbardellati <andrea.sbardellati@crs4.it>
+* Ian Schenck <ian@bx.psu.edu>
+* Nick Semenkovich <semenko@alum.mit.edu>
+* Matthew Shirley <mdshw5@gmail.com>
+* Clare Sloggett <sloc@unimelb.edu.au>
+* Nicola Soranzo <nicola.soranzo@tgac.ac.uk> <nsoranzo@tiscali.it> <soranzo@crs4.it>
+* Roy Storey <kiwiroy@gmail.com>
+* Hanfei Sun <ad9075@gmail.com>
+* Ilya Sytchev <hackdna@gmail.com>
+* James Taylor <james@jamestaylor.org>
+* Tomithy Too <tomithy.too@gmail.com>
+* David Trudgian <dave@trudgian.net> <david.trudgian@utsouthwestern.edu>
+* Nitesh Turaga <nitesh.turaga@gmail.com>
+* Clayton Turner <clayclay911@gmail.com>
+* Marek Vavruša <marek@vavrusa.com>
+* Martijn Vermaat <m.vermaat.hg@lumc.nl>
+* Kelly Vincent <kpvincent@bx.psu.edu>
+* Greg Von Kuster <greg@bx.psu.edu>
+* Hiral Vora <hvora1@uncc.edu>
+* Andrew Warren <anwarren@vbi.vt.edu>
+* Trevor Wennblom <trevor@well.com>
+* Yi Zhang <yizhang@bx.psu.edu>
+* Freek de Bruijn <freek.de.bruijn@nbic.nl>
+* Peter van Heusden <pvh@sanbi.ac.za>
+* Marius van den Beek <m.vandenbeek@gmail.com>
+
+# Institutional sponsors
+
+Galaxy development began at The Pennsylvania State University in 2006.
+In 2009 all contributions to that point were licensed by The
+Pennsylvania State University under the terms of the Academic Free
+License 3.0 (see LICENSE.txt). This license applies to all subsequent
+contributions - including but not limited to development at The
+Pennsylvania State University, Emory University, Johns Hopkins
+University, and George Washington University as part of the following
+NIH and NSF grants:
+
+* NSF DBI 0543285, “Tailoring genomic data to the needs of experimental
+  biologists and educators”
+* NIH R21 HG005133, “A turnkey solution for next generation sequence
+  data analysis”
+* NIH R01 HG004909, “An efficient lightweight environment for biomedical
+  computation”
+* NSF DBI 0850103, “Cyberinfrastructure for accessible and reproducible
+  research in life sciences”
+* NIH RC2 HG005542, “Dynamically scalable accessible analysis for next
+  generation sequence data”
+* NIH U41 HG006620, “Democratization of data analysis in life sciences
+  through Galaxy”
diff --git a/LICENSE.txt b/LICENSE.txt
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-Copyright (c) 2005-2013 Pennsylvania State University
+Copyright (c) 2005-2015 Galaxy Contributors (see CONTRIBUTORS.md)
 
 Licensed under the Academic Free License version 3.0