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+# bionemo-testing
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+A package of test-time requirements and utilities for bionemo sub-packages. In particular, the `bionemo-testing` package
+handles downloading and caching data and other assets for running unit tests and example notebooks. For more information
+on test data handling, see [BioNeMo test data management](https://github.com/NVIDIA/bionemo-framework/blob/main/sub-packages/bionemo-testing/src/bionemo/testing/data/README.md)