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 # imageomics.github.io
-Repository to host the Imageomics Institute's website.
+
+Repository to host the Imageomics Institute's website. The Imageomics Institute is funded by the US National Science Foundation's [Harnessing the Data Revolution (HDR) program](https://www.nsf.gov/cise/harnessingdata/) under [Award #2118240](https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2118240) (Imageomics: A New Frontier of Biological Information Powered by Knowledge-Guided Machine Learning). It was established October 1, 2021, to create machine learning tools using publicly funded collections of digital image data from national centers, field stations, museums and individual laboratories that will enable scientists to study how function follows form in all areas of biology and expand public understanding of the rules of Life on Earth and how it evolves.
+
+## Local Hosting
+
+To host the website locally, navigate to the root of the repository and run:
+
+```bash
+python -m http.server 8080
+```
+
+Then open <http://[::]:8080/> in your browser of choice.
+
+## Acknowledgments
+
+The header, footer, and search code for this website were initialized from the [HDR Ecosystem website](https://github.com/HDR-Ecosystem/hdr-website), which has been shared under an [MIT license](https://github.com/HDR-Ecosystem/hdr-website/blob/main/LICENSE).