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+# Scripts for commonly performed bionemo-framework actions.
+
+## First Time Setup
+
+After cloning the repository, you need to run the setup script **first**:
+
+```bash
+./internal/scripts/setup_env_file.sh
+```
+
+This will return an exit code of 1 on a first time run.
+
+## Release Image Building
+
+To build the release image, run the following script:
+
+```bash
+DOCKER_BUILDKIT=1 ./ci/scripts/build_docker_image.sh \
+  -regular-docker-builder \
+  -image-name "nvcr.io/nvidian/cvai_bnmo_trng/bionemo:bionemo2-$(git rev-parse HEAD)"
+```
+
+## Development Image Building
+
+To build the development image, run the following script:
+
+```bash
+./internal/scripts/build_dev_image.sh
+```
+
+## Interactive Shell in Development Image
+
+After building the development image, you can start a container from it and open a bash shell in it by executing:
+
+```bash
+./internal/scripts/run_dev.sh
+```
+
+## Testing Locally
+
+Inside the development container, run `./ci/scripts/static_checks.sh` to validate that code changes will pass the code
+formatting and license checks run during CI. In addition, run the longer `./ci/scripts/run_pytest.sh` script to run unit
+tests for all sub-packages.