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 ## Installing the application on a local conda environment
 
-Given a conda environment sontaining python 3.8 and [poetry](https://github.com/python-poetry/poetry), clone the repository from Github with the following command:
+Given a conda environment containing python 3.8 and [poetry](https://github.com/python-poetry/poetry), clone the repository from Github with the following command:
 
 ```
 git clone https://github.com/Clinical-Genomics/preClinVar.git