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+# Monarch Ontology stats for RPPR
+
+To generate the RPPR stats, you should have ROBOT or ODK installed.
+
+1. If you are not using ODK, create a new python environment
+2. Install requirements.txt (`pip install -r requirements.txt`)
+3. Run `make all` (if you run it for the first time in a while, add `-B`, ie. `make all -B`)
+4. Push the generated changes to GitHub
+
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+grainyhead>=0.2.1
+oaklib>=0.3.0