diff --git a/PanACoTA/utils.py b/PanACoTA/utils.py
index 36957c3fc41865e93d4291befd7c2bc11f73db5d..1a128496405004eb800427e9665ac0a59a6db369 100755
--- a/PanACoTA/utils.py
+++ b/PanACoTA/utils.py
@@ -1,6 +1,38 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env python3
 # coding: utf-8
 
+# ###############################################################################
+# This file is part of PanACOTA.                                                #
+#                                                                               #
+# Authors: Amandine Perrin                                                      #
+# Copyright © 2018-2020 Institut Pasteur (Paris).                               #
+# See the COPYRIGHT file for details.                                           #
+#                                                                               #
+# PanACOTA is a software providing tools for large scale bacterial comparative  #
+# genomics. From a set of complete and/or draft genomes, you can:               #
+#    -  Do a quality control of your strains, to eliminate poor quality         #
+# genomes, which would not give any information for the comparative study       #
+#    -  Uniformly annotate all genomes                                          #
+#    -  Do a Pan-genome                                                         #
+#    -  Do a Core or Persistent genome                                          #
+#    -  Align all Core/Persistent families                                      #
+#    -  Infer a phylogenetic tree from the Core/Persistent families             #
+#                                                                               #
+# PanACOTA is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the #
+# terms of the Affero GNU General Public License as published by the Free       #
+# Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option)     #
+# any later version.                                                            #
+#                                                                               #
+# PanACOTA is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY   #
+# WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS     #
+# FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the Affero GNU General Public License           #
+# for more details.                                                             #
+#                                                                               #
+# You should have received a copy of the Affero GNU General Public License      #
+# along with PanACOTA (COPYING file).                                           #
+# If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.                                  #
+# ###############################################################################
+
 """
 Util functions and classes.
 
diff --git a/PanACoTA/utils_argparse.py b/PanACoTA/utils_argparse.py
index 0306498de16e70fd47ca672a1378003949dec376..f5bb49bb4b75dd0228f0b80ae4da7166dafd6cf8 100644
--- a/PanACoTA/utils_argparse.py
+++ b/PanACoTA/utils_argparse.py
@@ -1,6 +1,38 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env python3
 # coding: utf-8
 
+# ###############################################################################
+# This file is part of PanACOTA.                                                #
+#                                                                               #
+# Authors: Amandine Perrin                                                      #
+# Copyright © 2018-2020 Institut Pasteur (Paris).                               #
+# See the COPYRIGHT file for details.                                           #
+#                                                                               #
+# PanACOTA is a software providing tools for large scale bacterial comparative  #
+# genomics. From a set of complete and/or draft genomes, you can:               #
+#    -  Do a quality control of your strains, to eliminate poor quality         #
+# genomes, which would not give any information for the comparative study       #
+#    -  Uniformly annotate all genomes                                          #
+#    -  Do a Pan-genome                                                         #
+#    -  Do a Core or Persistent genome                                          #
+#    -  Align all Core/Persistent families                                      #
+#    -  Infer a phylogenetic tree from the Core/Persistent families             #
+#                                                                               #
+# PanACOTA is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the #
+# terms of the Affero GNU General Public License as published by the Free       #
+# Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option)     #
+# any later version.                                                            #
+#                                                                               #
+# PanACOTA is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY   #
+# WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS     #
+# FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the Affero GNU General Public License           #
+# for more details.                                                             #
+#                                                                               #
+# You should have received a copy of the Affero GNU General Public License      #
+# along with PanACOTA (COPYING file).                                           #
+# If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.                                  #
+# ###############################################################################
+
 """
 Functions to check argparse aguments given by user
 
@@ -66,4 +98,4 @@ def thread_num(param):
         raise argparse.ArgumentTypeError(msg)
     elif param == 0:
         return nb_cpu
-    return param
\ No newline at end of file
+    return param
diff --git a/PanACoTA/utils_pangenome.py b/PanACoTA/utils_pangenome.py
index 227496585607906ed10569ddd49d9cb3c3e935d0..041be486d265b08286783541e48a8c5c78a0c27c 100755
--- a/PanACoTA/utils_pangenome.py
+++ b/PanACoTA/utils_pangenome.py
@@ -1,6 +1,38 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env python3
 # coding: utf-8
 
+# ###############################################################################
+# This file is part of PanACOTA.                                                #
+#                                                                               #
+# Authors: Amandine Perrin                                                      #
+# Copyright © 2018-2020 Institut Pasteur (Paris).                               #
+# See the COPYRIGHT file for details.                                           #
+#                                                                               #
+# PanACOTA is a software providing tools for large scale bacterial comparative  #
+# genomics. From a set of complete and/or draft genomes, you can:               #
+#    -  Do a quality control of your strains, to eliminate poor quality         #
+# genomes, which would not give any information for the comparative study       #
+#    -  Uniformly annotate all genomes                                          #
+#    -  Do a Pan-genome                                                         #
+#    -  Do a Core or Persistent genome                                          #
+#    -  Align all Core/Persistent families                                      #
+#    -  Infer a phylogenetic tree from the Core/Persistent families             #
+#                                                                               #
+# PanACOTA is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the #
+# terms of the Affero GNU General Public License as published by the Free       #
+# Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option)     #
+# any later version.                                                            #
+#                                                                               #
+# PanACOTA is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY   #
+# WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS     #
+# FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the Affero GNU General Public License           #
+# for more details.                                                             #
+#                                                                               #
+# You should have received a copy of the Affero GNU General Public License      #
+# along with PanACOTA (COPYING file).                                           #
+# If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.                                  #
+# ###############################################################################
+
 """
 Functions used to deal with pangenome file
 
@@ -94,7 +126,7 @@ def read_pan_file(filein, logger):
     ----------
     filein : str
         path to pangenome file
-    logger : 
+    logger :
 
     Returns
     -------