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@@ -32,4 +32,32 @@ The "doc/Data Deployments.dia" diagram shows the source systems that
 expose the various records as well as the transform routines that are
 used for aggregation of the data on the local system.
 
- LocalWords:  NCBI parallelization HDF SQL Pellegrino phylogenetic DBMS dia
+BUILDING
+
+An autogen.sh script is provided to initialize the project directory
+with the necessary GNU Autotools configuration.
+
+When building on a Debian system the mpi.h file is in a subdirectory
+of /usr/include and therefore not found within the default include
+path.  To account for this run the following before running
+./configure.
+
+  $ export CPPFLAGS=-I/usr/include/mpi
+
+TEST CASES
+
+The "load_influenza_aa_dat" function loads a single tab delimited text
+file into a table structure in the HDF5 file.  The HDFView GUI can be
+used to open the loaded table and then export it back out as a text
+file.  The text file can then be compared with the original input to
+verify that the load was completed without error.
+
+  $ diff --report-identical-files \
+    /home/don/exp004/genomes/INFLUENZA/influenza_aa.dat \
+    Protein\ Sequences.txt 
+
+  Files /home/don/exp004/genomes/INFLUENZA/influenza_aa.dat and
+  Protein Sequences.txt are identical
+
+ LocalWords:  NCBI parallelization HDF SQL Pellegrino phylogenetic DBMS dia mpi
+ LocalWords:  autogen Autotools CPPFLAGS aa dat HDFView GUI diff txt