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 # Welcome to `repo2docker`'s documentation
 
-`repo2docker` lets you **reproducibly build, run, and deploy user environment images for research and computing workflows from source code repositories**.
+`repo2docker` lets you **reproducibly build, run, and deploy user environment images for interactive data and computing workflows from source code repositories**.
 
 `repo2docker` can be used to explore a repository locally by building and executing the
 constructed image of the repository, or as a means of building images that