README updated for the pre-alpha release.

README.md

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 ## Introduction
-This is an App for Cytoscape 3.1+ to provide low-level access to Cytoscape data objects for R, Python, MATLAB, and other tools via RESTful API.  __This app is still experimental and we need your feedback!__
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+### In One Sentence
+__Control [Cytoscape](http://www.cytoscape.org) from [RStudio](http://www.rstudio.com/), [IPython Notebook](http://ipython.org/notebook.html), or [Node.js](http://nodejs.org/)__
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+### More Details
+This is an App for Cytoscape 3.1+ to provide low-level access to Cytoscape data objects from R, Python, MATLAB, and other tools via RESTful API.  You can write your Cytoscape workflows in standard programming languages.
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+__This app is still experimental and we need your feedback!__
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+
+## System Requirments
+* [Java 7](http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/index.html)
+    * __Not tested on Java 8 yet!__
+    * Oracle JDK recommended, but should be compatible with OpenJDK.
+* [Cytoscape 3.1.1+](http://www.cytoscape.org/)
+    * Will be supported in Cytoscape 3.2.x, but currently tested with v3.1.1.
 
 
 ## Documentation
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 ## Problems or Feature Requests?
 The API is not finalized yet.  Please send your feature requests to our [mailing list](https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/cytoscape-discuss).
 
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 ## License
 * Source Code: [The MIT license](http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)
 * Documentation: [CC BY-SA 4.0](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)
 
-© 2014 [Cytoscape Consortium](http://www.cytoscape.org/).  Developed and maintained by [Keiichiro Ono](http://keiono.github.io/) (UCSD Trey Ideker Lab).
+© 2014 [Cytoscape Consortium](http://www.cytoscape.org/).  Developed and maintained by [Keiichiro Ono](http://keiono.github.io/), [UCSD Trey Ideker Lab](http://idekerlab.ucsd.edu/Pages/default.aspx).