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-PSCF - Polymer Self-Consistent Field Theory
-Copyright (2002-2016) Regents of the University of Minnesota
-
-PSCF is a Fortran 90 program for numerically solving the polymer 
-self-consistent field theory for periodic microstructures formed 
-by incompressible melts or mixtures of linear block copolymers, 
-linear homopolymers, and small molecule solvents. 
-
-This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
-it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
-the Free Software Foundation. A copy of this license is included in
-the LICENSE file in the top-level PSCF directory. 
-
-Contributors:
-
-   David Morse
-   Chris Tyler
-   Jian Qin
-   Amit Ranjan
-   Raghuram Thiagarajan
-   Akash Arora
-
-Dependencies:
-
-The PSCF executable links to a FFTW fast Fourier transform library 
-and a LAPACK linear algebra library. The build system also depends 
-on python. These packages must be installed before attempting to 
-compile the program from source.
-
-User Documentation:
-
-A web user manual is avalaible at:
-
-   https://pscf.readthedocs.io
-
-Instructions for compiling the program from source, as well as various
-ways to install precompiled executables, are given in the user manual.
-
-The source files for the user manual are text files that are stored in 
-the doc/user-man directory. The relevant files have file extension .rst. 
-
-Developer Documentation:
-
-A local copy of the developer API documentation, which includes 
-documentation for all modules, subroutines and public variables, may 
-be regenerated by following instructions given in the file doc/README. 
-The resulting .html page are installed in doc/devel-man.
-
-Directory Structure
-
-src/                          - Fortran 90 source files
-doc/                          - documentation
-doc/user-man                  - - user manual rst text files
-tools/                        - Tools for processing output and source
-tools/python                  - - python modules
-tools/matlab                  - - matlab scripts for visualization
-tools/bin                     - - bash scripts
-attic/                        - unused or unfinished fortran files
-make/                         - build directory for compiling with make
-
-An annotated list of source files is given in the file src/README. 
-Before modifying any fortran files, see the note at the end of that 
-file regarding the use of a python preprocessor script to generate 
-some source files.
-
-Examples:
-
-A library of examples is provided in a separate github repository,
-located at https://github.com/dmorse/pscf-examples
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+# PSCF - Polymer Self-Consistent Field Theory
+
+Copyright (2002-2016) Regents of the University of Minnesota
+
+PSCF is a Fortran 90 program for numerically solving the polymer
+self-consistent field theory for periodic microstructures formed
+by incompressible melts or mixtures of linear block copolymers,
+linear homopolymers, and small molecule solvents.
+
+This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+the Free Software Foundation. A copy of this license is included in
+the LICENSE file in the top-level PSCF directory.
+
+# Contributors
+
+- David Morse
+- Chris Tyler
+- Jian Qin
+- Amit Ranjan
+- Raghuram Thiagarajan
+- Akash Arora
+
+# Dependencies
+
+ PSCF depends upon the FFTW fast Fourier transform library and the
+ LAPACK linear algebra library.  These packages must be installed
+ before attempting to compile the program from source.
+
+# User Documentation
+
+A web user manual is avalaible at:
+
+    https://pscf.readthedocs.io
+
+Instructions for compiling the program from source, as well as various
+ways to install precompiled executables, are given in the user manual.
+
+The source files for the user manual are text files that are stored in
+the doc/user-man directory. The relevant files have file extension .rst.
+
+# Developer Documentation
+
+A local copy of the developer API documentation, which includes
+documentation for all modules, subroutines and public variables, may
+be regenerated by following instructions given in the file doc/README.
+The resulting .html page are installed in doc/devel-man.
+
+# Directory Structure
+
+    src/                          - Fortran 90 source files
+    doc/                          - documentation files
+    doc/user-man                  - - user manual source files
+    tools/                        - Tools for processing output and source
+    tools/matlab                  - - matlab scripts for visualization
+    tools/python                  - - python modules
+    make/                         - build directory for make
+
+An annotated list of source files is given in the file src/SRC_FILES.
+Before modifying any fortran files, see the note at the end of that
+file regarding the use of preprocessor to generate some files.
+
+# Examples
+
+A library of examples is provided in a separate github repository,
+located at https://github.com/dmorse/pscf-examples
+
+
+[buildstatus_image_travis]: https://travis-ci.org/dmorse/pscf.svg?branch=master
+[travisci]: https://travis-ci.org/dmorse/pscf
+
+[![Travis][buildstatus_image_travis]][travisci]
+