diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..0d20b64
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+*.pyc
diff --git a/BlobCollection.py b/BlobCollection.py
index dc74b1a..ac5bd1e 100644
--- a/BlobCollection.py
+++ b/BlobCollection.py
@@ -229,7 +229,7 @@ def parseCovFromSAMFile(self, lib_name, sam_file):
 						contig_base_cov[contig_name] = contig_base_cov.get(contig_name, 0) + sum_of_matchin_bases
 		for contig_id, base_cov in contig_base_cov.items():
 			if contig_id not in self.contigs:
-				sys.exit("[ERROR] - Sequence header %s in %s does not seem to be part of the assembly. FASTA header of sequence in assembly MUST equal reference sequence name in BAM file. Please check your input files." % (contig_id, bam_file)) 
+				sys.exit("[ERROR] - Sequence header %s in %s does not seem to be part of the assembly. FASTA header of sequence in assembly MUST equal reference sequence name in BAM file. Please check your input files." % (contig_id, sam_file)) 
 			else:
 				contig_cov = base_cov / self.contigs[contig_id].corrected_length
 				self.addBlobCov(contig_id, lib_name, contig_cov)
@@ -508,4 +508,4 @@ def writeOutput(self, version):
 			blobs_string += tax_string[0:-1]
 			blobs_string += "\n"
 		blobs_fh.write(blobs_string)
-		blobs_fh.close()
\ No newline at end of file
+		blobs_fh.close()
diff --git a/BlobCollection.pyc b/BlobCollection.pyc
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diff --git a/MiscFunctions.pyc b/MiscFunctions.pyc
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diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 39fc18e..8c923c4 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 # blobtools-light
-Light version of the upcoming blobtools package
+Light version of the blobtools package. No longer maintained ... please check out <a href="https://github.com/DRL/blobtools">blobtools</a>.
 
 blobtools-light allows the visualisation of (draft) genome assemblies using TAGC (Taxon-annotated Gc-Coverage) plots (Kumar et al. 2012).
 
diff --git a/makeblobs.py b/makeblobs.py
index 4d218c9..57fe177 100755
--- a/makeblobs.py
+++ b/makeblobs.py
@@ -128,14 +128,14 @@ def getDictOfTaxDB(self, taxdb_dir):
 		if not taxdb_dir:
 			sys.exit("[ERROR] : Please specify the path to NCBI TaxDB.")
 		if os.path.exists(taxdb_dir):
-			if not os.path.exists(taxdb_dir + "nodes.dmp"):
+			if not os.path.exists( os.path.join(taxdb_dir, "nodes.dmp") ):
 				sys.exit("[ERROR] : 'nodes.dmp' from NCBI TaxDB could not be found in %s." %taxdb_dir)
-			if not os.path.exists(taxdb_dir + "names.dmp"):
+			if not os.path.exists( os.path.join(taxdb_dir, "names.dmp") ):
 				sys.exit("[ERROR] : 'names.dmp' from NCBI TaxDB could not be found in %s." %taxdb_dir)	
 		else:
 			sys.exit("[ERROR] : NCBI TaxDB could not be found in %s." %taxdb_dir)
-		taxdb['nodes'] = taxdb_dir + "nodes.dmp"
-		taxdb['names'] =  taxdb_dir + "names.dmp"
+		taxdb['nodes'] = os.path.join(taxdb_dir, "nodes.dmp")
+		taxdb['names'] = os.path.join(taxdb_dir, "names.dmp")
 		return taxdb
 
 	def getDictOfOutfiles(self, outprefix):