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@@ -5,8 +5,14 @@ Author: Stefan Widgren (National Veterinary Institute, Sweden),
         Pavol Bauer (Uppsala University, Sweden),
         Stefan Engblom (Uppsala University, Sweden)
 Maintainer: Stefan Widgren <stefan.widgren@sva.se>
-Description: A general and flexible software framework for
-    stochastic disease spread simulations.
+Description: Livestock movements are important for the spread of many
+    infectious diseases in animal populations. SimInf is an efficient
+    and flexible framework for stochastic disease spread modelling and
+    integrates within-node infectious dynamics as continuous-time
+    Markov chains (Gillespie's direct method) and livestock movements
+    between nodes as scheduled events. The core simulation solver is
+    implemented in C and uses OpenMP to divide work over multiple
+    processors.
 Acknowledgement: This work was financially supported by the Swedish
     Research Council within the UPMARC Linnaeus center of Excellence
     (Pavol Bauer and Stefan Engblom).