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-Welcome to Gordon-Text_utils-Library.
-
-Gordon-Text_utils-Library is free software. Please see the file COPYING for details.
-For documentation, please see the files in the doc subdirectory.
-For building and installation instructions please see the INSTALL file.
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+## Welcome to Gordon Text utils Library
+
+Gordon Text utils library is free software. Please see the file COPYING for details.
+For documentation, please see the files in the doc subdirectory.
+
+For building and installation instructions please see the INSTALL file. Alternatively
+you can also use conda to install this library.
+
+```bash
+conda install libgtextutils -c conda-forge -c bioconda
+```