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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 a variety of methods including
- Arvados APIs, WebDAV, and FUSE file system mount.
-
-* *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.
-
-## Quick start
+<img align="right" src="doc/images/dax.png" height="240px">
+
+[Arvados](https://arvados.org) is an open source 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.
+
+The key components of Arvados are:
+
+* *Keep*: Keep is the Arvados storage system for managing and storing large
+collections of files. Keep combines content addressing and a
+distributed storage architecture resulting in both high reliability
+and high throughput. Every file stored in Keep can be accurately
+verified every time it is retrieved. Keep supports the creation of
+collections as a flexible way to define data sets without having to
+re-organize or needlessly copy data. Keep works on a wide range of
+underlying filesystems and object stores.
+
+* *Crunch*: Crunch is the orchestration system for running [Common Workflow Language](https://www.commonwl.org) workflows. It is
+designed to maintain data provenance and workflow
+reproducibility. Crunch automatically tracks data inputs and outputs
+through Keep and executes workflow processes in Docker containers. In
+a cloud environment, Crunch optimizes costs by scaling compute on demand.
+
+* *Workbench*: The Workbench web application allows users to interactively access
+Arvados functionality. It is especially helpful for querying and
+browsing data, visualizing provenance, and tracking the progress of
+workflows.
+
+* *Command Line tools*: The command line interface (CLI) provides convenient access to Arvados
+functionality in the Arvados platform from the command line.
+
+* *API and SDKs*: Arvados is designed to be integrated with existing infrastructure. All
+the services in Arvados are accessed through a RESTful API. SDKs are
+available for Python, Go, R, Perl, Ruby, and Java.
+
+# Quick start
To try out Arvados on your local workstation, you can use Arvbox, which
provides Arvados components pre-installed in a Docker container (requires
configure Arvbox to be accessible over a network and for other options see
http://doc.arvados.org/install/arvbox.html for details.
-## Documentation
+# Documentation
-Complete documentation, including the [User Guide](https://doc.arvados.org/user/index.html), [Installation documentation](https://doc.arvados.org/install/index.html) and
+Complete documentation, including the [User Guide](https://doc.arvados.org/user/index.html), [Installation documentation](https://doc.arvados.org/install/index.html), [Administrator documentation](https://doc.arvados.org/admin/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.
+[doc/README.textile](doc/README.textile) for instructions.
-## Community
+# Community
[](https://gitter.im/arvados/community?utm_source=badge&utm_medium=badge&utm_campaign=pr-badge&utm_content=badge)
The [Arvados user mailing list](http://lists.arvados.org/mailman/listinfo/arvados)
is used to announce new versions and other news.
-## Reporting bugs
+All participants are expected to abide by the [Arvados Code of Conduct](CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md).
+
+# Reporting bugs
+
+[Report a bug](https://dev.arvados.org/projects/arvados/issues/new) on [dev.arvados.org](https://dev.arvados.org).
-[Report a bug](https://dev.arvados.org/projects/arvados/issues/new) on the [dev.arvados.org Redmine site](https://dev.arvados.org).
+# Development and Contributing
-## Development and Contributing
+See [CONTRIBUTING](CONTRIBUTING.md) for information about Arvados development and how to contribute to the Arvados project.
-See [CONTRIBUTING.md](CONTRIBUTING.md) for information about Arvados development and how to contribute to the Arvados project.
+The [development road map](https://dev.arvados.org/issues/gantt?utf8=%E2%9C%93&set_filter=1&gantt=1&f%5B%5D=project_id&op%5Bproject_id%5D=%3D&v%5Bproject_id%5D%5B%5D=49&f%5B%5D=&zoom=1) outlines some of the project priorities over the next twelve months.
-## Licensing
+# Licensing
-Arvados is Free Software. See COPYING for information about Arvados Free
-Software licenses.
+Arvados is Free Software. See [COPYING](COPYING) for information about the open source licenses used in Arvados.
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