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        <h1>ARVADOS</h1>
        <p>A free and open source platform for big data science</p>
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      <p><strong>What is Arvados</strong>
      <p><a href="https://arvados.org/">Arvados</a> is a platform for managing compute and storage for cloud and HPC clusters. It allows you to track your methods and datasets, share them securely, and easily re-run analyses.  It also make it possible to run analysis across multiple clusters (HPC, cloud, or hybrid) with <a href="{{site.baseurl}}/user/cwl/federated-workflows.html">Federated Multi-Cluster Workflows</a>.
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      <p><strong>Support and Community</strong></p>

<p>The recommended place to ask a question about Arvados is on Biostars. After you have <a href="//www.biostars.org/t/arvados/">read previous questions and answers</a> you can <a href="https://www.biostars.org/p/new/post/?tag_val=arvados">post your question using the 'arvados' tag</a>.</p>

      <p>There is a <a href="http://lists.arvados.org/mailman/listinfo/arvados">mailing list</a>, and chat on IRC: <a href="irc://irc.oftc.net:6667/#arvados">#arvados</a> @ OFTC (you can <a href="https://webchat.oftc.net/?channels=arvados">join in your browser</a>).
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      <p>Curoverse, a Veritas Genetics company, provides managed Arvados installations as well as commercial support for Arvados. Please visit <a href="https://curoverse.com">curoverse.com</a> or contact <a href="mailto:researchsales@veritasgenetics.com">researchsales@veritasgenetics.com</a> for more information.</p>

      <p><strong>Contributing</strong></p>
      <p>Please visit the <a href="https://dev.arvados.org/projects/arvados/wiki/Wiki#Contributing-and-hacking">developer site</a>. Arvados is 100% free and open source software, check out the code on <a href="https://github.com/curoverse/arvados">github</a>.

      <p>Arvados is under active development, see the <a href="https://dev.arvados.org/projects/arvados/activity">recent developer activity</a>.
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      <p><strong>License</strong></p>
      <p>Most of Arvados is licensed under the <a href="{{ site.baseurl }}/user/copying/agpl-3.0.html">GNU AGPL v3</a>. The SDKs are licensed under the <a href="{{ site.baseurl }}/user/copying/LICENSE-2.0.html">Apache License 2.0</a> so that they can be incorporated into proprietary code. See the <a href="https://github.com/curoverse/arvados/blob/master/COPYING">COPYING file</a> for more information.
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        <a href="{{ site.baseurl }}/user/index.html">User Guide</a> &mdash; How to manage data and do analysis with Arvados.
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        <a href="{{ site.baseurl }}/sdk/index.html">SDK Reference</a> &mdash; Details about the accessing Arvados from various programming languages.
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        <a href="{{ site.baseurl }}/architecture/index.html">Arvados Architecture</a> &mdash; Details about the the Arvados components and architecture.
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        <a href="{{ site.baseurl }}/api/index.html">API Reference</a> &mdash; Details about the the Arvados REST API.
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        <a href="{{ site.baseurl }}/admin/index.html">Admin Guide</a> &mdash; Details about administering an Arvados cluster.
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        <a href="{{ site.baseurl }}/install/index.html">Install Guide</a> &mdash; How to install Arvados.
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