update qingpeng's citation
fix URLs
PEP8
Merge pull request #677 from ged-lab/fix/qp-citation

update qingpeng's citation
catching up with recent changes
add API checks
include the sandbox
doc doc updates
Merge pull request #580 from ged-lab/fix/release-checklist14Q3

catching up with recent changes
fix broken docs url
add release notes
multithreading leads to dropped reads
update the release notes too
Merge pull request #682 from ged-lab/doc/681

add release notes and document known issue
add the seqan headers