updated readme with basic info

LICENSE

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+The MIT License (MIT)
+
+Copyright (c) 2016 Pavan Ramkumar
+
+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
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+
+The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all
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+
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+SOFTWARE.

README.md

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 # spykes
-Tools of spike data analysis and visualization
+
+Spykes is a collection of tools to make the visualization and analysis of neural data easy and reproducible.
+
+At present, this project comes with two packages:
+- ```spykes``` helps you plot beautiful spike rasters and peri-stimulus time histograms
+- ```neuropop``` helps you estimate tuning curves of neural populations and decode preferred stimuli from population vectors
+
+Documentation, tutorials and examples are coming soon!
+
+[![License](https://img.shields.io/badge/license-MIT-blue.svg?style=flat)](https://github.com/KordingLab/spykes/blob/master/LICENSE)
+
+### Installation
+
+Clone the repository.
+
+```bash
+$ git clone http://github.com/KordingLab/spykes
+```
+
+Install `spykes` using `setup.py` as follows
+
+```bash
+$ cd spykes
+$ python setup.py develop install
+```
+
+### Authors
+
+* [Pavan Ramkumar](http:/github.com/pavanramkumar)
+* [Hugo Fernandes](http:/github.com/hugoguh)
+
+### Acknowledgments
+
+* [Konrad Kording](http://kordinglab.com) for funding and support