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+# bionemo-fw
+
+The BioNeMo Framework (FW): a production grade framework for AI-enabled Drug Discovery.
+
+The `bionemo-fw` Python package contains framework-spanning code under the `bionemo.fw` namespace.
+All other namespaces of the BioNeMo Framework (`bionemo.*`) are dependencies of this package.
+
+## Developer Setup
+After following the setup specified in the [README](https://github.com/NVIDIA/bionemo-framework/blob/main/README.md),
+you may install this project's code in your environment via executing:
+```bash
+pip install -e .
+```
+
+To run unit tests with code coverage, execute:
+```bash
+pytest -v --cov=bionemo --cov-report=term .
+```