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@@ -8,16 +8,23 @@ pymoondb: The python interface to the MoonDB geochemical and petrological lunar
 
 MoonDB is a NASA-funded quality-controlled data system that will preserve, digitize and curate lunar geochemical and petrological data and their associated sample metadata and analytical metadata.
 
-__python-moondb__ is a python module which creates an interface to the Application Program Interface made available by the MoonDB project.
+__Pymoondb__ is a python module which creates an interface to the Application Program Interface made available by the MoonDB project.
 
-__python-moondb__ is being developed at [IAPS/INAF](http://www.iaps.inaf.it) in Rome, Italy.
+The python module is being developed at [IAPS/INAF](http://www.iaps.inaf.it) in Rome, Italy.  The MoonDB database is being developed and maintaned by the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory's Geoinformatics Research Group of Columbia University, New York.
 
 # Installation
 
+1. clone the repository:
+
+```
+git clone https://www.ict.inaf.it/gitlab/alessandro.frigeri/pymoondb.git
+```
+
 Within the directory where setup.py is placed, type:
 
+```
 pip install -e .
-
+```
 
 To use moondb module, simply do::