diff --git a/geneExpressionData/AtlasViewerFormat/README.md b/geneExpressionData/AtlasViewerFormat/README.md
index 1ba1793f53fa7fc3dc5f71784e61d3b9f06a42ba..4215ffcaf0004e34b6f7f6ab23db6be38716ca0e 100644
--- a/geneExpressionData/AtlasViewerFormat/README.md
+++ b/geneExpressionData/AtlasViewerFormat/README.md
@@ -11,9 +11,13 @@ click "Atlas gene expression" button from the AtlasViewer menu.
 To read the .pat files in the folders:
 
 import cPickle
+
  fobj = file("patternFileName.pat")
+ 
  patterns = cPickle.load(fobj)
+ 
  fobj.close()
  
+ 
  #patterns is a Python dictionary whose keys are genes and values are cell 
  labels expressing the gene.
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