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     gprMax/
+        conda_env.yml
         docs/
         gprMax/
         LICENSE
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         user_models/
 
 
+* ``conda_env.yml`` is a configuration file for Anaconda (Miniconda) that setups a Python environment with all the required Python packages for gprMax.
 * ``docs`` contains source files for the User Guide. The User Guide is written using reStructuredText (http://docutils.sourceforge.net/rst.html) markup, and is built using Sphinx (http://sphinx-doc.org) and Read the Docs (https://readthedocs.org).
 * ``gprMax`` is the main package. Within this package the main module is ``gprMax.py``
 * ``LICENSE`` contains information on the GNU General Public License v3 or higher (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html).