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ARVADOS

A free and open source platform for big data science

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What is Arvados

Arvados enables you to quickly begin using cloud computing resources in your data science work. It allows you to track your methods and datasets, share them securely, and easily re-run analyses.

Communications

Read our blog updates or look through our recent developer activity.

Questions? Email the mailing list, or chat with us on IRC: #arvados @ OFTC (you can join in your browser).

Want to contribute?

Check out our developer site. We're open source, check out our code on github.

License

Arvados is under the copyleft GNU AGPL v3, with our SDKs under Apache License 2.0 (so that you can incorporate proprietary toolchains into your pipelines).

Quickstart

Try any pipeline from the list of public pipelines. For instance, the Pathomap Pipeline links to these step-by-step instructions for trying Arvados out right in your browser using Curoverse's public Arvados instance.

Pipeline Developer Quickstart

Want to port your pipeline to Arvados? Check out the step-by-step Port-a-Pipeline guide on the Arvados wiki.

More in-depth guides

User Guide — How to manage data and do analysis with Arvados.

SDK Reference — Details about the accessing Arvados from various programming languages.

API Reference — Details about the the Arvados REST API.

Install Guide — How to install Arvados on a cloud platform.


The content of the above documentation is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States license. Code samples in the above documentation are licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0.