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 SHIRE is available as plain python code (called Plain version) or as a version with user interface (called GUI version). 
 Please refer to the documentation in Docs which summarises all necessary preperatory steps for both versions, explains settings and options and describes the output files of the framework.
 
+Also refer to [this example](https://mbd.pages.git-ce.rwth-aachen.de/shire/) which illustrates how to use SHIRE. The necessary data and further information can be found in [example/](https://git-ce.rwth-aachen.de/mbd/shire/-/tree/main/examples?ref_type=heads).
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