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-title: Welcome to Arvados!
+title: Welcome to Arvados™!
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+Copyright (C) The Arvados Authors. All rights reserved.
-_If you are new to Arvados and want to get started quickly, go to "Run a pipeline using Workbench.":{{site.baseurl}}/user/getting_started/workbench.html_
+SPDX-License-Identifier: CC-BY-SA-3.0
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-This guide provides an introduction to using Arvados to solve big data bioinformatics problems, including:
+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.
-* Robust storage of very large files, such as whole genome sequences hundreds of gigabytes in size using the "Arvados Keep":{{site.baseurl}}/user/tutorials/tutorial-keep.html content-addressable cluster file system.
-* Running compute-intensive genomic analysis pipelines, such as alignment and variant calls using the "Arvados Crunch":{{site.baseurl}}/user/tutorials/intro-crunch.html cluster compute engine.
-* Storing and querying metadata about genome sequence files, such as human subjects and their phenotypic traits using the "Arvados Metadata Database":{{site.baseurl}}/user/topics/tutorial-trait-search.html .
-* Accessing, organizing, and sharing data, pipelines and results using the "Arvados Workbench":{{site.baseurl}}/user/getting_started/workbench.html web application.
+This guide provides a reference for using Arvados to solve scientific big data problems.
-The examples in this guide use the Arvados instance located at <a href="ghttps://{{ site.arvados_workbench_host }}/" target="_blank">https://{{ 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.
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-Curoverse maintains a public Arvados instance located at <a href="https://workbench.qr1hi.arvadosapi.com/" target="_blank">https://workbench.qr1hi.arvadosapi.com/</a>. You must have an account in order to use this service. If you would like to request an account, please send an email to "arvados@curoverse.com":mailto:arvados@curoverse.com.
+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.
h2. Typographic conventions
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