Acknowledgments

• Thomas Bataillon and Joëlle Ronfort, as PhD supervisors of the authors, helped initiation of the project.
• Nathalie Chantret, Jérôme Gouzy, Martin Lascoux, Xavier Bailly, Thomas Källman, Thibaut Hourlier, Rik op den Camp, Kate St-Onge, Sonja Kujala, Tanja Pyhäjärvi, Paivio Pollari, Alexis Dereeper and others tested early versions of the package and provided valuable input.
• Tuomas Toivainen and Outi Savolainen hosted a course which included a practical demonstration of the package.
• The sprimers command was developed in collaboration with Gerben Bijl.
• Antoine Gaillard designed the EggLib logo and banner.