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@@ -25,10 +25,16 @@ The current repository lives at
 git clone tux02.genenetwork.org:/home/git/public/gn-guile
 ```
 
+or
+
+```
+git remote add gn git.genenetwork.org:/home/git/public/gn-guile
+```
+
 GNU Guile allows you to develop against a live running web server using emacs-geiser on port 1970. To try this fire up the web server from the `web` directory as
 
 ```sh
-guix shell -L ~/guix-bioinformatics --container --network --file=guix.scm -- guile -L . --fresh-auto-compile --listen=1970 -e main web/webserver.scm 8091
+guix shell -L ~/guix-bioinformatics --container --network --development --file=guix.scm -- guile -L . --fresh-auto-compile --listen=1970 -e main web/webserver.scm 8091
 ```
 
 By default the root points to the API:
@@ -42,7 +48,15 @@ curl http://127.0.0.1:8091/home/aging
 
 The `--container` option runs the code in an isolated container, and the `--network` option connects that container's networking to the host to allow you to access the running service.
 
-If you get an error `no code for module (gn packages guile)` add the appropriate guix-bioinformatics repo to the load path (`-L` switch).
+If you get an error `no code for module (gn packages guile)` add the appropriate guix-bioinformatics repo to the load path (`-L` switch). Note that, instead of hard-wiring guix-bioinformatics, the recommended way is to use a guix channel as defined in [guix-channel](./.guix-channel).
+
+We recommend checking the Guix documentation for manifests, channels and guix.scm definitions.
+
+To run a standalone server you should run without the listener on port 1970:
+
+```
+guix shell -L ~/guix-bioinformatics --container --network --file=guix.scm -- guile -L . --fresh-auto-compile -e main web/webserver.scm 8091
+```
 
 ## Welcome to the world of interactive Lisp programming
 
@@ -50,15 +64,21 @@ Next fire up emacs with `emacs-geiser-guile` and connect to the running web serv
 
 Note that you may have to try different versions of guile+emacs to succeed.
 
+Also these days it may be a better bet to use Andrew Tropin's alternatives ares and arei that are very powerful alternatives to geiser (with a more common lisp type interactive experience):
+
+=> https://git.sr.ht/~abcdw/guile-ares-rs
+=> https://git.sr.ht/~abcdw/emacs-arei
+
+
 # Tools
 
 Some tooling and scripts that run independently are stored in `./scripts`.
 
-# Development
+# Forwarding a MySQL port
 
-```
-git remote add gn git.genenetwork.org:/home/git/public/gn-guile
-```
+You may want to forward a mysql port if there is no DB locally you can do something like:
+
+ssh -L 3306:127.0.0.1:3306 -f -N tux02.genenetwork.org
 
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