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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
* Related services and components including a web workbench for managing files
and compute jobs, REST APIs, SDKs, and other tools.
-## Quick start
+# 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
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The [Arvados user mailing list](http://lists.arvados.org/mailman/listinfo/arvados)
is used to announce new versions and other news.
-## Reporting bugs
+# Reporting bugs
-[Report a bug](https://dev.arvados.org/projects/arvados/issues/new) on the [dev.arvados.org Redmine site](https://dev.arvados.org).
+[Report a bug](https://dev.arvados.org/projects/arvados/issues/new) on [dev.arvados.org](https://dev.arvados.org).
-## Development and Contributing
+# Development and Contributing
-See [CONTRIBUTING.md](CONTRIBUTING.md) for information about Arvados development and how to contribute to the Arvados project.
+See [CONTRIBUTING](CONTRIBUTING.md) for information about Arvados development and how to contribute to the Arvados project.
-## Licensing
+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.
-Arvados is Free Software. See COPYING for information about Arvados Free
-Software licenses.
+# Licensing
+
+Arvados is Free Software. See [COPYING](COPYING) for information about the open source licenses used in Arvados.