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+# INSTALL GEMMA: Genome-wide Efficient Mixed Model Association
+
+## Check version
+
+Simply run gemma once installed
+
+    gemma
+
+and it should give you the version.
+
+## GEMMA dependencies
+
+GEMMA runs on Linux and MAC OSX and the runtime has the following
+dependencies:
+
+* C++ tool chain
+* GNU Science library (GSL)
+* blas
+* [Eigen library](http://eigen.tuxfamily.org/dox/)
+* zlib
+
+## Install GEMMA
+
+### Bioconda
+
+Recent versions of GEMMA can be installed with
+[BioConda](http://ddocent.com/bioconda/) without root permissions using the following
+command
+
+    conda install gemma
+
+### GNU Guix
+
+The GNU Guix package manager can install recent versions of GEMMA
+using the following command
+
+    guix package -i gemma
+
+
+### Install from source
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 ## Quick start
 
-1. Download and install the software. *Give more details here.*
+1. Download and install the software. See [INSTALL.md](INSTALL.md).
 
 2. Work through the demo. *Give more details here.*