4 title: Welcome to Arvados™!
7 Copyright (C) The Arvados Authors. All rights reserved.
9 SPDX-License-Identifier: CC-BY-SA-3.0
12 Arvados is an "open source":copying/copying.html platform for managing, processing, and sharing genomic and other large scientific and biomedical data. With Arvados, bioinformaticians run and scale compute-intensive workflows, developers create biomedical applications, and IT administrators manage large compute and storage resources.
14 This guide provides a reference for using Arvados to solve scientific big data problems.
16 The examples in this guide use the Arvados instance located at <a href="{{site.arvados_workbench_host}}/" target="_blank">{{site.arvados_workbench_host}}</a>. If you are using a different Arvados instance replace @{{ site.arvados_workbench_host }}@ with your private instance in all of the examples in this guide.
18 h2. Typographic conventions
20 This manual uses the following typographic conventions:
24 <li>Code blocks which are set aside from the text indicate user input to the system. Commands that should be entered into a Unix shell are indicated by the directory where you should enter the command ('~' indicates your home directory) followed by '$', followed by the highlighted <span class="userinput">command to enter</span> (do not enter the '$'), and possibly followed by example command output in black. For example, the following block indicates that you should type <code>ls foo.*</code> while in your home directory and the expected output will be "foo.input" and "foo.output".
25 <pre><code>~$ <span class="userinput">ls foo.*</span>
30 <li>Code blocks inline with text emphasize specific <code>programs</code>, <code>files</code>, or <code>options</code> that are being discussed.</li>
31 <li>Bold text emphasizes <b>specific items</b> to review on Arvados Workbench pages.</li>
32 <li>A sequence of steps separated by right arrows (<span class="rarr">→</span>) indicate a path the user should follow through the Arvados Workbench. The steps indicate a menu, hyperlink, column name, field name, or other label on the page that guide the user where to look or click.