add acknowledgements to README (#407)

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## Features ## Features
* **Visualization at scale:** built with [WebGL](https://www.khronos.org/webgl/), [React](https://reactjs.org/) & [Redux](https://redux.js.org/) to handle visualization of at least 1 million cells. - **Visualization at scale:** built with [WebGL](https://www.khronos.org/webgl/), [React](https://reactjs.org/) & [Redux](https://redux.js.org/) to handle visualization of at least 1 million cells.
* **Interactive exploration:** select, cross-filter, and compare subsets of your data with performant indexing and data handling. - **Interactive exploration:** select, cross-filter, and compare subsets of your data with performant indexing and data handling.
* **Flexible API:** the cellxgene client-server model is designed to support a range of existing analysis packages for backend computational tasks (eg scanpy), integrated with client-side visualization via a [REST API](https://restfulapi.net/).
- **Flexible API:** the cellxgene client-server model is designed to support a range of existing analysis packages for backend computational tasks (eg scanpy), integrated with client-side visualization via a [REST API](https://restfulapi.net/).
## Getting Started ## Getting Started
**Requirements** **Requirements**
- OS: OSX, Windows, Linux -- the developers are currently testing on OSX and Windows (via WSL using Ubuntu). It should work on other platforms but if you are using something different and need help, please let us know. - OS: OSX, Windows, Linux -- the developers are currently testing on OSX and Windows (via WSL using Ubuntu). It should work on other platforms but if you are using something different and need help, please let us know.
- python 3.6 - python 3.6
- python3 tkinter - python3 tkinter
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**Help** **Help**
cellxgene --help cellxgene --help
_For help with the scanpy engine_ _For help with the scanpy engine_
cellxgene scanpy --help cellxgene scanpy --help
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## Contributing ## Contributing
We warmly welcome contributions from the community. Please submit any bug reports and feature requests through github issues. Please submit any direct contributions via a branch + pull request. We warmly welcome contributions from the community. Please submit any bug reports and feature requests through github issues. Please submit any direct contributions via a branch + pull request.
## Inspiration and collaboration ## Inspiration and collaboration
We’ve been inspired by several other related efforts in this space, including the [UCSC Cell Browswer](http://cells.ucsc.edu/), [Cytoscape](http://www.cytoscape.org/), [Xena](https://xena.ucsc.edu/), [ASAP](https://asap.epfl.ch/), [Gene Pattern](http://genepattern-notebook.org/), & many others; we hope to explore collaborations where useful. We’ve been inspired by several other related efforts in this space, including the [UCSC Cell Browswer](http://cells.ucsc.edu/), [Cytoscape](http://www.cytoscape.org/), [Xena](https://xena.ucsc.edu/), [ASAP](https://asap.epfl.ch/), [Gene Pattern](http://genepattern-notebook.org/), & many others; we hope to explore collaborations where useful.
## Help/Contact ## Help/Contact
Have questions, suggestions, or comments? You can contact us by joining [CZI Science Slack](https://cziscience.slack.com/messages/CCTA8DF1T) and posting in the #cellxgene channel. Please submit any feature requests or bugs as an issue in github. We'd love to hear from you! Have questions, suggestions, or comments? You can contact us by joining [CZI Science Slack](https://cziscience.slack.com/messages/CCTA8DF1T) and posting in the #cellxgene channel. Please submit any feature requests or bugs as an issue in github. We'd love to hear from you!
## Reuse ## Reuse
This project was started with the sole goal of empowering the scientific community to explore and understand their data. As such, we whole-heartedly encourage other scientific tool builders to adopt the patterns, tools, and code from this project, and reach out to us with ideas or questions using Github Issues or Pull Requests. All code is freely available for reuse under the [MIT license](https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT). This project was started with the sole goal of empowering the scientific community to explore and understand their data. As such, we whole-heartedly encourage other scientific tool builders to adopt the patterns, tools, and code from this project, and reach out to us with ideas or questions using Github Issues or Pull Requests. All code is freely available for reuse under the [MIT license](https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT).
*We thank Alex Wolf for the demo dataset.* ## Acknowledgements
cellxgene is inspired by many innovative projects. We would like to specifically thank:
- Alex Wolf for the demo dataset.
- Mike Bostock and the [crossfilter](https://github.com/crossfilter) team for API inspiration.