grabbed readme from old devel branch

README.md

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 A Gaussian processes framework in Python.
 
+* [User mailing list](https://lists.shef.ac.uk/sympa/subscribe/gpy-users)
 * [Online documentation](https://gpy.readthedocs.org/en/latest/)
 * [Unit tests (Travis-CI)](https://travis-ci.org/SheffieldML/GPy)
 
 
 Continuous integration status: ![CI status](https://travis-ci.org/SheffieldML/GPy.png)
 
+Getting started
+===============
+Installing with pip
+-------------------
+The simplest way to install GPy is using pip. ubuntu users can do:
+
+    sudo apt-get install python-pip
+    pip install gpy
+
+If you'd like to install from source, or want to contribute to the project (e.g. by sending pull requests via github), read on.
+
+Ubuntu
+------
+For the most part, the developers are using ubuntu. To install the required packages:
+
+    sudo apt-get install python-numpy python-scipy python-matplotlib
+
+clone this git repository and add it to your path:
+
+    git clone git@github.com:SheffieldML/GPy.git ~/SheffieldML
+    echo 'PYTHONPATH=$PYTHONPATH:~/SheffieldML' >> ~/.bashrc
+
+
+Windows
+-------
+On windows, we recommend the ![anaconda python distribution](http://continuum.io/downloads). We've also had luck with ![enthought](http://www.enthought.com). git clone or unzip the source to a suitable directory, and add an approptiate PYTHONPATH environment variable. 
+
+On windows 7 (and possibly earlier versions) there's a bug in scipy version 0.13 which tries to write very long filenames. Reverting to scipy 0.12 seems to do the trick:
+
+    conda install scipy=0.12
+
+OSX
+---
+Everything appears to work out-of-the box using ![enthought](http://www.enthought.com) on osx Mavericks. Download/clone GPy, and then add GPy to your PYTHONPATH
+
+    git clone git@github.com:SheffieldML/GPy.git ~/SheffieldML
+    echo 'PYTHONPATH=$PYTHONPATH:~/SheffieldML' >> ~/.profile
+
 
 Compiling documentation:
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     nosetests -v
 
+Funding Acknowledgements
+========================
+
+Current support for the GPy software is coming through the following projects. 
+
+* [EU FP7-PEOPLE Project Ref 316861](http://staffwww.dcs.shef.ac.uk/people/N.Lawrence/projects/mlpm/) "MLPM2012: Machine Learning for Personalized Medicine"
+
+* [BBSRC Project No BB/K011197/1](http://staffwww.dcs.shef.ac.uk/people/N.Lawrence/projects/recombinant/) "Linking recombinant gene sequence to protein product manufacturability using CHO cell genomic resources"
+
+* MRC Special Training Fellowship "Bayesian models of expression in the transcriptome for clinical RNA-seq"
+
+* [EU FP7-KBBE Project Ref 289434](http://staffwww.dcs.shef.ac.uk/people/N.Lawrence/projects/biopredyn/) "From Data to Models: New Bioinformatics Methods and Tools for Data-Driven Predictive Dynamic Modelling in Biotechnological Applications"
+
+*  [EU FP7-ICT Project Ref 612139](http://staffwww.dcs.shef.ac.uk/people/N.Lawrence/projects/wysiwyd/) "WYSIWYD: What You Say is What You Did"
+
+Previous support for the GPy software came from the following projects:
+
+* [BBSRC Project No BB/H018123/2](http://staffwww.dcs.shef.ac.uk/people/N.Lawrence/projects/iterative/) "An iterative pipeline of computational modelling and experimental design for uncovering gene regulatory networks in vertebrates"
+* [Erasysbio](http://staffwww.dcs.shef.ac.uk/people/N.Lawrence/projects/synergy/) "SYNERGY: Systems approach to gene regulation biology through nuclear receptors"