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+# Relion
+
+## Installation
+
+Relion is installed from git. The ./build script should work for both stable
+(tags) and unstable (branches) versions.
+
+Currently only gcc/7.4.0 is used. Better performance is reported with
+intel icc and MKL, but this would require additional openmpi variants.
+