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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.

Support and Community

The recommended place to ask a question about Arvados is on Biostars. After you have read previous questions and answers you can post your question using the 'arvados' tag.

There is a mailing list, and chat on IRC: #arvados @ OFTC (you can join in your browser).

Curoverse, a Veritas Genetics company, provides managed Arvados installations as well as commercial support for Arvados. Please visit curoverse.com or contact researchsales@veritasgenetics.com for more information.

Contributing

Please visit the developer site. Arvados is 100% free and open source software, check out the code on github.

Arvados is under active development, see the recent developer activity.

License

Most of Arvados is licensed under the GNU AGPL v3. The SDKs are licensed under the Apache License 2.0 so that they can be incorporated into proprietary code. See the COPYING file for more information.

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.

Arvados Architecture — Details about the the Arvados components and architecture.

API Reference — Details about the the Arvados REST API.

Admin Guide — Details about administering an Arvados cluster.

Install Guide — How to install Arvados.


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.