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 Weather and Climate Workflow Tool based on AiiDA
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-WcFlow a library for creating weather and climate workflows from a yaml format inspired by `cylc <https://cylc.github.io/>`_ using `AiiDA <https://www.aiida.net/>`_ as workflow engine.
+WcFlow is a library for creating weather and climate workflows from a yaml format inspired by `cylc <https://cylc.github.io/>`_ using `AiiDA <https://www.aiida.net/>`_ as workflow engine.
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+
+Installing AiiDA
+----------------
+
+To install AiiDA, it is first recommended to create a virtual environment, e.g. via ``venv`` and activate it:
+
+.. code-block:: bash
+
+    python -m venv ~/.python_venvs/wcflow
+    source ~/.python_venvs/wcflow/bin/activate
+
+The ``aiida-core`` package can then be installed with pip:
+
+.. code-block:: bash
+
+    pip install aiida-core
+
+Finally, ``verdi presto`` can be used to quickly set up an AiiDA profile using SQLite via:
+
+.. code-block:: bash
+
+    verdi presto --profile-name wcflow
+
+Further information on the installation can be found in the 
+`AiiDA documentation <https://aiida.readthedocs.io/projects/aiida-core/en/latest/installation/index.html>`_,
+which covers (among other topics) how to set up RabbitMQ, necessary to run processes in the background in a non-blocking manner, as well as how use a more performant PostgreSQL database.
 
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-Install
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+Installing the package for development
+--------------------------------------
 
-To install it please use
+To install the package please use
 
 .. code-block:: bash
 
     pip install -e .
 
+This will automatically install the additional, required packages, ``aiida-shell`` and ``aiida-workgraph`` at compatible versions.
+
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