diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 09052d9..f86b6e8 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1,8 +1,16 @@
-Run krust on the test data, searching for kmers of length 5 across all sequences, like this:
+`krust` is a [k-mer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K-mer) counter written in Rust and run from the command line that will output canonical k-mers and their frequency across the records in a fasta file.
 
-	$ cargo run --release 5 cerevisae.pan.fa > output.tsv
+`krust` prints to `stdout`, writing, on alternate lines:  
+```>{frequency}```  
+```{canonical k-mer}```  
 
-or, searching for kmers of length 21:
+`krust` uses [`rust-bio`](https://docs.rs/bio/0.38.0/bio/), [`rayon`](https://docs.rs/rayon/1.5.1/rayon/), and [`dashmap`](https://docs.rs/crate/dashmap/4.0.2).  
 
-	$ cargo run --release 21 cerevisae.pan.fa > output.tsv
+Run `krust` on the test data in the [`krust` Github repo](https://github.com/suchapalaver/krust), searching for kmers of length 5, like this:  
+```$ cargo run --release 5 cerevisae.pan.fa > output.tsv```  
+or, searching for kmers of length 21:  
+```$ cargo run --release 21 cerevisae.pan.fa > output.tsv```  
 
+Future:  
+A function like fn single_sequence_canonical_kmers(filepath: String, k: usize) {}    
+Would returns k-mer counts for individual sequences in a fasta file.     
diff --git a/src/lib.rs b/src/lib.rs
index 20895f7..1cce0ab 100644
--- a/src/lib.rs
+++ b/src/lib.rs
@@ -1,28 +1,21 @@
-//! # Krust
+//! # krust
 //!
-//! Krust is a k-mer counter written in Rust and run from the command line that will output canonical k-mers and their frequency across the records in a fasta file.
+//! `krust` is a [k-mer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K-mer) counter written in Rust and run from the command line that will output canonical k-mers and their frequency across the records in a fasta file.
 //!
-//! Krust prints to `stdout`, writing, on alternate lines, for example, to a .tsv file:
+//! `krust` prints to `stdout`, writing, on alternate lines:  
+//! ```>{frequency}```  
+//! ```{canonical k-mer}```  
 //!
-//!  `>{frequency across fasta file for both canonical k-mer and its reverse complement}`
+//! `krust` uses [`rust-bio`](https://docs.rs/bio/0.38.0/bio/), [`rayon`](https://docs.rs/rayon/1.5.1/rayon/), and [`dashmap`](https://docs.rs/crate/dashmap/4.0.2).  
 //!
-//!  `{canonical k-mer}`
+//! Run `krust` on the test data in the [`krust` Github repo](https://github.com/suchapalaver/krust), searching for kmers of length 5, like this:  
+//! ```$ cargo run --release 5 cerevisae.pan.fa > output.tsv```  
+//! or, searching for kmers of length 21:  
+//! ```$ cargo run --release 21 cerevisae.pan.fa > output.tsv```  
 //!
-//! `krust` uses the [`rust-bio`](https://docs.rs/bio/0.38.0/bio/), [`rayon`](https://docs.rs/rayon/1.5.1/rayon/), and [`dashmap`](https://docs.rs/dashmap/4.0.2/dashmap/struct.DashMap.html) crates.
-//!
-//! Run krust on the test data in the `krust` [Github repo](https://github.com/suchapalaver/krust), searching for kmers of length 5, like this:
-//!
-//! ```$ cargo run --release 5 cerevisae.pan.fa > output.tsv```
-//!
-//! or, searching for kmers of length 21:
-//!
-//! ```$ cargo run --release 21 cerevisae.pan.fa > output.tsv```
-//!
-//! Future:
-//!
-//! fn single_sequence_canonical_kmers(filepath: String, k: usize) {}
-//!
-//! Returns k-mer counts for individual sequences in a fasta file 
+//! Future:  
+//! A function like fn single_sequence_canonical_kmers(filepath: String, k: usize) {}    
+//! Would returns k-mer counts for individual sequences in a fasta file.     
 
 use bio::{alphabets::dna::revcomp, io::fasta};
 use dashmap::DashMap;
@@ -48,11 +41,12 @@ impl Config {
     }
 }
 
-///  Reads sequences from fasta records in parallel using `rayon` (crate).
-///  Ignores substrings containing `N`.
-///  Canonicalizes by lexicographically smaller of k-mer/reverse-complement
-///  Returns a `DashMap` of canonical k-mers (keys) and their frequency in the data (values).
-pub fn canonicalize_kmers(
+/// Reads sequences from fasta records in parallel using [`rayon`](https://docs.rs/rayon/1.5.1/rayon/).
+/// Using [`Dashmap`](https://docs.rs/dashmap/4.0.2/dashmap/struct.DashMap.html) allows updating single hashmap in parallel.
+/// Ignores substrings containing `N`.
+/// Canonicalizes by lexicographically smaller of k-mer/reverse-complement.
+/// Returns a hashmap of canonical k-mers (keys) and their frequency in the data (values).
+pub fn canonicalize_kmer(
     filepath: String,
     k: usize,
 ) -> Result<DashMap<Box<[u8]>, u64>, &'static str> {