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 We encourage users to follow the detailed best practices for astronomical databases outlined in [Chen et al. 2022](https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4365/ac6268).
 
-Installation Instructions
+Installation instructions
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 All you should need to run is: