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+[](https://gitter.im/arvados/community?utm_source=badge&utm_medium=badge&utm_campaign=pr-badge&utm_content=badge) | [Installing Arvados](https://doc.arvados.org/install/index.html) | [Installing Client SDKs](https://doc.arvados.org/sdk/index.html) | [Report a bug](https://dev.arvados.org/projects/arvados/issues/new) | [Development and Contributing](CONTRIBUTING.md)
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[Arvados](https://arvados.org) is a free software distributed computing platform
for bioinformatics, data science, and high throughput analysis of massive data
sets. Arvados supports a variety of cloud, cluster and HPC environments.
Arvados consists of:
* *Keep*: a petabyte-scale content-addressed distributed storage system for managing and
- storing collections of files, accessible via HTTP and FUSE mount.
+ storing collections of files, accessible via a variety of methods including
+ Arvados APIs, WebDAV, and FUSE file system mount.
-* *Crunch*: a Docker-based cluster and HPC workflow engine designed providing
- strong versioning, reproducibilty, and provenance of computations.
+* *Crunch*: a Docker-based cloud and HPC workflow engine designed providing
+ strong versioning, reproducibilty, and provenance of large-scale computations.
* Related services and components including a web workbench for managing files
and compute jobs, REST APIs, SDKs, and other tools.
## Documentation
-Complete documentation, including a User Guide, Installation documentation and
-API documentation is available at http://doc.arvados.org/
+Complete documentation, including the [User Guide](https://doc.arvados.org/user/index.html), [Installation documentation](https://doc.arvados.org/install/index.html) and
+[API documentation](https://doc.arvados.org/api/index.html) is available at http://doc.arvados.org/
If you wish to build the Arvados documentation from a local git clone, see
doc/README.textile for instructions.
[](https://gitter.im/arvados/community?utm_source=badge&utm_medium=badge&utm_campaign=pr-badge&utm_content=badge)
-The [arvados community channel](https://gitter.im/arvados/community)
+The [Arvados community channel](https://gitter.im/arvados/community)
channel at [gitter.im](https://gitter.im) is available for live
discussion and support.
-The
-[Arvados user mailing list](http://lists.arvados.org/mailman/listinfo/arvados)
-is a forum for general discussion, questions, and news about Arvados
-development. The
-[Arvados developer mailing list](http://lists.arvados.org/mailman/listinfo/arvados-dev)
-is a forum for more technical discussion, intended for developers and
-contributors to Arvados.
+The [Arvados developement channel](https://gitter.im/arvados/development)
+channel at [gitter.im](https://gitter.im) is used to coordinate development.
-## Development
+The [Arvados user mailing list](http://lists.arvados.org/mailman/listinfo/arvados)
+is used to announce new versions and other news.
-[](https://ci.arvados.org/job/run-tests/)
-[](https://goreportcard.com/report/github.com/arvados/arvados)
+## Reporting bugs
-The Arvados public bug tracker is located at https://dev.arvados.org/projects/arvados/issues
+[Report a bug](https://dev.arvados.org/projects/arvados/issues/new) on the [dev.arvados.org Redmine site](https://dev.arvados.org).
-Continuous integration is hosted at https://ci.arvados.org/
+## Development and Contributing
-Instructions for setting up a development environment and working on specific
-components can be found on the
-["Hacking Arvados" page of the Arvados wiki](https://dev.arvados.org/projects/arvados/wiki/Hacking).
+See [CONTRIBUTING.md](CONTRIBUTING.md) for information about Arvados development and how to contribute to the Arvados project.
## Licensing
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