-# APIClient
+[comment]: # (Copyright © The Arvados Authors. All rights reserved.)
+[comment]: # ()
+[comment]: # (SPDX-License-Identifier: CC-BY-SA-3.0)
-<dl>
- <dt>Homepage</dt><dd><a href="http://code.google.com/p/google-api-ruby-client">http://code.google.com/p/google-api-ruby-client</a></dd>
- <dt>Author</dt><dd><a href="mailto:bobaman@google.com">Bob Aman</a></dd>
- <dt>Copyright</dt><dd>Copyright © 2011 Google, Inc.</dd>
- <dt>License</dt><dd>Apache 2.0</dd>
-</dl>
+[![Join the chat at https://gitter.im/arvados/community](https://badges.gitter.im/arvados/community.svg)](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)
-[![Build Status](https://secure.travis-ci.org/google/google-api-ruby-client.png)](http://travis-ci.org/google/google-api-ruby-client)
-[![Dependency Status](https://gemnasium.com/google/google-api-ruby-client.png)](https://gemnasium.com/google/google-api-ruby-client)
+<img align="right" src="doc/images/dax.png" height="240px">
-# Description
+[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 Google API Ruby Client makes it trivial to discover and access supported
-APIs.
+The key components of Arvados are:
-# Example Usage
+* *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.
- # Initialize the client & Google+ API
- require 'google/api_client'
- client = Google::APIClient.new
- plus = client.discovered_api('plus')
+* *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.
- # Initialize OAuth 2.0 client
- client.authorization.client_id = '<CLIENT_ID_FROM_API_CONSOLE>'
- client.authorization.client_secret = '<CLIENT_SECRET>'
- client.authorization.scope = 'https://www.googleapis.com/auth/plus.me'
-
- # Request authorization
- redirect_uri = client.authorization.authorization_uri
+* *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.
- # Wait for authorization code then exchange for token
- client.authorization.code = '....'
- client.authorization.fetch_access_token!
-
- # Make an API call
- result = client.execute(
- :api_method => plus.activities.list'
- :parameters => {'collection' => 'public', 'userId' => 'me'}
- )
+* *Command Line tools*: The command line interface (CLI) provides convenient access to Arvados
+functionality in the Arvados platform from the command line.
- puts result.data
-
-# Install
+* *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.
-Be sure `http://rubygems.org/` is in your gem sources.
+# Quick start
-For normal client usage, this is sufficient:
+To try out Arvados on your local workstation, you can use Arvbox, which
+provides Arvados components pre-installed in a Docker container (requires
+Docker 1.9+). After cloning the Arvados git repository:
- $ sudo gem install google-api-client
+```
+$ cd arvados/tools/arvbox/bin
+$ ./arvbox start localdemo
+```
-The command line interface, the example applications, and the test suite
-require additional dependencies. These may be obtained with:
+In this mode you will only be able to connect to Arvbox from the same host. To
+configure Arvbox to be accessible over a network and for other options see
+http://doc.arvados.org/install/arvbox.html for details.
- $ sudo gem install google-api-client --development --force --no-rdoc --no-ri
+# Documentation
+
+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](doc/README.textile) for instructions.
+
+# Community
+
+[![Join the chat at https://gitter.im/arvados/community](https://badges.gitter.im/arvados/community.svg)](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)
+channel at [gitter.im](https://gitter.im) is available for live
+discussion and support.
+
+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 used to announce new versions and other news.
+
+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).
+
+# Development and Contributing
+
+See [CONTRIBUTING](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
+
+Arvados is Free Software. See [COPYING](COPYING) for information about the open source licenses used in Arvados.