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+Prepare Gemini annotation files and test databases for tool tests
+=================================================================
+
+Each version of GEMINI is tied to a particular set of annotation files and
+database version.
+
+The ``build-gemini-testdata.sh`` script in this folder should be used to
+regenerate the annotation files and the test databases whenever the GEMINI
+version required by the tool wrappers gets upgraded.
+
+The script requires a working GEMINI installation at the targeted version and
+a folder with GEMINI's original annotation files, and can be executed with::
+
+  sh build-gemini-testdata.sh path/to/gemini/annotation/files
+  
+It will regenerate the annotation files inside test-data/test-cache/gemini/data
+and rebuild the *.db files in test-data.
+
+.. Note::
+
+   If the version of GEMINI that you are upgrading to uses a gemini-config.yaml
+   file that is different from the one found in test-data/test-cache you will
+   have to upgrade this file manually (make sure you leave the line
+   ``annotation_dir: gemini/data`` unchanged in the process).
+