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-# SSAM-lite-server
-
-... is a lightweight implementation of the [SSAM framework](https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-23807-4).
-It provides the functionality of SSAMs most popular and widely used features in a graphical user interface
-with a few functions added for convenience and ease of use. After installation on a server it can be used by
-researchers as browser-based web app.
-
-
-Author: Sebastian Tiesmeyer (sebastian.tiesmeyer@bih-charite.de)1
-
-1 Digital Health Center, Berlin Institute of Health (BIH) at Charité – Universitätsmedizin, Berlin, Germany
-
-## Choose your flavour
-
-You might also want to check out the [SSAM-lite](https://github.com/HiDiHlabs/ssam-lite) implementation.
-
-For a guide to help you choose read https://ssam-lite.readthedocs.io/en/latest/local_vs_server.html
-
-## Installation
-
-https://ssam-lite.readthedocs.io/en/latest/installation.html#ssam-lite-server
-
-
-## Documentation
-
-https://ssam-lite.readthedocs.io
-
-
-## Citations
-
-TODO update Citation when ready
-
-Sebastian Tiesmeyer, Shashwat Sahay, Niklas Mueller-Boetticher, Roland Eils, Sebastian Mackowiak, Naveed Ishaque.
-2021.
-"[SSAM-lite: a light-weight web-based framework for analysis of spatially resolved transcriptomics data](https://biorxiv.org)"
-*bioRxiv*. doi: 10.1101/2021....
-
-
-## License
-
-MIT License
-
-Copyright (c) 2021 Sebastian Tiesmeyer, Naveed Ishaque, Roland Eils, Berlin Institute of Health @ Charité
-
-Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
-of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
-in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
-to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
-copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
-furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
-
-The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all
-copies or substantial portions of the Software.
-
-THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
-IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
-FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
-AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
-LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
-OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE
-SOFTWARE.
+# SSAM-lite-server
+
+[![License: MIT](https://img.shields.io/badge/License-MIT-yellow.svg)](./LICENSE)
+[![DOI:10.1101/2021.09.2x.xxxxxxxx](http://img.shields.io/badge/DOI-10.1101/2021.09.2x.xxxxxxxx-B31B1B.svg)](https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.09.2x.xxxxxxxx)
+[![DOI](https://zenodo.org/badge/DOI/10.5281/zenodo.5517607.svg)](https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5517607)
+
+... is a lightweight implementation of the [SSAM framework](https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-23807-4).
+It provides the functionality of SSAMs most popular and widely used features in a graphical user interface
+with a few functions added for convenience and ease of use. After installation on a server it can be used by
+researchers as browser-based web app.
+
+
+Author: Sebastian Tiesmeyer (sebastian.tiesmeyer@bih-charite.de)1
+
+1 Digital Health Center, Berlin Institute of Health (BIH) at Charité – Universitätsmedizin, Berlin, Germany
+
+## Choose your flavour
+
+You might also want to check out the [SSAM-lite](https://github.com/HiDiHlabs/ssam-lite) implementation.
+
+For a guide to help you choose read https://ssam-lite.readthedocs.io/en/latest/local_vs_server.html
+
+## Installation
+
+https://ssam-lite.readthedocs.io/en/latest/installation.html#ssam-lite-server
+
+
+## Documentation
+
+https://ssam-lite.readthedocs.io
+
+
+## Versioning
+
+This project follows the [SemVer](https://semver.org) guidelines for versioning.
+
+For a list of versions see the [releases](https://github.com/HiDiHlabs/ssam-lite-server/releases).
+
+
+## Citations
+
+TODO update Citation when ready
+
+Sebastian Tiesmeyer, Shashwat Sahay, Niklas Mueller-Boetticher, Roland Eils, Sebastian Mackowiak, Naveed Ishaque.
+2021.
+"[SSAM-lite: a light-weight web-based framework for analysis of spatially resolved transcriptomics data](https://biorxiv.org)"
+*bioRxiv*. doi: 10.1101/2021....
+
+
+## Sample data
+
+Multiple datasets to try out SSAM-lite have been prepared and are available for download on
+Zenodo (https://zenodo.org/record/5517607).
+
+
+## License
+
+This project is licensed under the MIT License - for details please refer to the [LICENSE](./LICENSE) file.
+=======
+THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
+IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
+FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
+AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
+LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
+OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE
+SOFTWARE.