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 7. CITATIONS
 8. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
 9. AUTHOR
+10. DISCLOSURE
 
 ## ABOUT
 
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 * [Apache Commons CLI](https://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-cli/) -- To enable command line arguments for scripting.
 
 ## ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
-BiGpairSEQ was conceived in collaboration with Dr. Alice MacQueen, who brought the original 
+BiGpairSEQ was conceived in collaboration with the author's spouse, Dr. Alice MacQueen, who brought the original 
 pairSEQ paper to the author's attention and explained all the biology terms he didn't know.
 
 ## AUTHOR
-BiGpairSEQ algorithm and simulation by Eugene Fischer, 2021. Improvements and documentation, 2022.
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+BiGpairSEQ algorithm and simulation by Eugene Fischer, 2021. Improvements and documentation, 2022–2023.
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+## DISCLOSURE
+The earliest versions of the BiGpairSEQ simulator were written in 2021 to let Dr. MacQueen test hypothetical extensions 
+of the published pairSEQ protocol while she was interviewing for a position at Adaptive Biotechnologies. She has been 
+employed at Adaptive Biotechnologies since 2022.
+
+The author has worked on this BiGpairSEQ simulator since 2021 without Dr. MacQueen's involvement, since she has had
+access to related, proprietary technologies. The author has had no such access, relying exclusively on the 2015 pairSEQ
+paper and other academic publications. He continues to work on BiGpairSEQ
+recreationally, as it involves some very beautiful math.
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