Merge pull request #5 from cBioPortal/readme-updates

Add more info about this repo
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 # cbioportal-core
-Legacy cBioPortal Core
+Legacy cBioPortal Core. Although many of the Java classes here are still in use by the main codebase and the `metaImport.py` Python scripts are still used for importing, we decided to move them all here for deprecating in the future once we have come up with a good plan for replacing them.
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+This repo contains:
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+- many old Java classes for interacting with the database
+- The `metaImport.py` Python script used for importing