diff --git a/docs/CONTRIBUTING.md b/docs/CONTRIBUTING.md
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+### Contributing
+#### Setup
+To set up a development install, please:
+* Fork this repository
+* Clone your fork
+
+    `git clone https://github.com/YOUR_USERNAME/neuro`
+    
+    `cd neuro`
+* Add this repository as the upstream
+
+    `git remote add upstream https://github.com/SainsburyWellcomeCentre/neuro`
+    
+* Install an editable, development version of `neuro` 
+
+    `pip install -e .[dev]`
+
+* To keep your fork up to date:
+
+    `git fetch upstream`
+    
+    `git merge upstream/master`
+    
+#### Pull requests
+In all cases, please submit code to the main repository via a pull request. 
+Upon approval, please merge via "Squash and Merge" on Github to maintain a 
+clean commit history.
+
+
+#### Formatting
+`neuro` uses [Black](https://github.com/python/black) o ensure a consistent 
+code style. Please run `black ./ -l 79 --target-version py37` before making 
+any commits. To prevent any errors, it is easier to add a formatting check 
+as a [pre-commit hook](https://www.atlassian.com/git/tutorials/git-hooks). 
+E.g. on linux by adding this to your `.git/hooks/pre-commit`:
+
+    black ./ -l 79 --target-version py37 --check || exit 1
+
+#### Testing
+`neuro` uses [pytest](https://docs.pytest.org/en/latest/) for testing. Please 
+try to ensure that all functions are tested in `tests/tests/unit_tests` and 
+all workflows/command-line tools are tested in `tests/tests/unit_tests`.
+
+#### Travis
+All commits & pull requests will be build by [Travis](https://travis-ci.com). 
+To ensure there are no issues, ensure that all tests run (`pytest`) and there 
+are no formatting issues (`black ./ -l 79 --target-version py37 --check`) 
+before pushing changes.
+
+#### Releases
+Travis will automatically release any tagged commit on the master branch. 
+Hence to release a new version of cellfinder, use either GitHub, or the git 
+CLI to tag the relevant commit and push to master.
+
+
+#### Dependencies
+`neuro` is (initially) designed as companion software to 
+[cellfinder](https://github.com/SainsburyWellcomeCentre/cellfinder) and 
+ [amap](https://github.com/SainsburyWellcomeCentre/amap-python). These 
+ packages may depend on `neuro` and so the inverse should not be true. Any 
+ functionality in these packages necessary for neuro to work should be 
+ extracted into another package such as 
+ [imlib](https://github.com/adamltyson/imlib).
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
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 setup(
     name="neuro",
-    version="0.0.2",
+    version="0.0.4",
     description="Visualisation and analysis of brain imaging data",
     install_requires=requirements,
     extras_require={