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+# QUEST Website
+
+## Introduction
+
+The QUEST website is the website build to analyze the date from the [QUEST project](https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpclett.0c00014). it provide statistics for the QUEST vertical excitations set by targeting data corresponding to the parameters which the user has selected.
+
+## Quick start
+
+To clone this website and use it locally please run the following commands.
+
+```bash
+git clone --recurse-submodules https://git.irsamc.ups-tlse.fr/mveril/exdatabaseLCPQ
+cd exdatabaseLCPQ
+hugo serve
+```
+
+Now you car use your favorite browser to navigate to the website using the URL showed by hugo in your terminal (normally <localhost:1313>)
+
+## Repository content
+
+### The website
+
+The main part of this repository is the website. It is build using the [hugo](https://gohugo.io/) static website generator with the [beautifulhugo](https://themes.gohugo.io/beautifulhugo/) theme.
+
+All the data are stored in the [data](static/data) directory.
+
+### The tools.
+
+The second part is the  [tools](tools/) a series of python and bash scripts used to generate data.
+
+#### datafileBuilder
+
+A python script to generate data from custom \LaTeX input file see  [examples](docs/examples).
+
+#### metarecover
+
+the metarecover bash script is used to regenerate the metadata from the previous git history state.
+So you can remove a data file to regenerate it from a LaTeX input file with datafileBuilder and recover the metadata from the previous version using metarecover.
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