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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.
+* *Keep*: A petabyte-scale content-addressed distributed storage
+ system for storing, managing and versioning collections of files.
+ Like git for big data. Interoperable data access by a variety of
+ methods including WebDAV, FUSE file system mount, and Arvados APIs.
-* *Crunch*: a Docker-based cluster and HPC workflow engine designed providing
- strong versioning, reproducibilty, and provenance of computations.
+* *Crunch*: A container-based cloud and HPC workflow engine providing
+ strong versioning, reproducibilty, and provenance of large-scale
+ computations. Supports [Common Workflow
+ Language](https://commonwl.org) for describing workflows.
* Related services and components including a web workbench for managing files
and compute jobs, REST APIs, SDKs, and other tools.
-## Quick start
-
-Curoverse maintains an Arvados public cloud demo at
-[https://cloud.curoverse.com](https://cloud.curoverse.com). A Google account
-is required to log in.
+# 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 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), [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
+
+[](https://gitter.im/arvados/community?utm_source=badge&utm_medium=badge&utm_campaign=pr-badge&utm_content=badge)
-## 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](irc://irc.oftc.net:6667/#arvados IRC) (Internet Relay Chat)
-channel at the
-[Open and Free Technology Community (irc.oftc.net)](http://www.oftc.net/oftc/)
-is available for live discussion and support. You can use a traditional IRC
-client or [join OFTC over the web.](https://webchat.oftc.net/?channels=arvados)
+The [Arvados developement channel](https://gitter.im/arvados/development)
+channel at [gitter.im](https://gitter.im) is used to coordinate development.
-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
-contributers to Arvados.
+The [Arvados user mailing list](http://lists.arvados.org/mailman/listinfo/arvados)
+is used to announce new versions and other news.
-## Development
+# Reporting bugs
-[](https://ci.curoverse.com/job/run-tests/)
-[](https://goreportcard.com/report/github.com/curoverse/arvados)
+[Report a bug](https://dev.arvados.org/projects/arvados/issues/new) on [dev.arvados.org](https://dev.arvados.org).
-The Arvados public bug tracker is located at https://dev.arvados.org/projects/arvados/issues
+# Development and Contributing
-Continuous integration is hosted at https://ci.curoverse.com/
+See [CONTRIBUTING](CONTRIBUTING.md) for information about Arvados development and how to contribute to the Arvados project.
-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).
+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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