X-Git-Url: https://git.arvados.org/arvados.git/blobdiff_plain/060d38d627bd1e51dd2b3c6e7de9af6aa7d7b6f3..ad92a003eb3c4efdd3f880b5301033b755d6d247:/doc/user/index.html.textile.liquid
diff --git a/doc/user/index.html.textile.liquid b/doc/user/index.html.textile.liquid
index b894e3d5e9..e24afc9a44 100644
--- a/doc/user/index.html.textile.liquid
+++ b/doc/user/index.html.textile.liquid
@@ -9,16 +9,11 @@ Copyright (C) The Arvados Authors. All rights reserved.
SPDX-License-Identifier: CC-BY-SA-3.0
{% endcomment %}
-_If you are new to Arvados, please try the Quickstart on the documentation homepage instead of this detailed User Guide._
+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.
-This guide provides a reference for using Arvados to solve big data bioinformatics problems, including:
+This guide provides a reference for using Arvados to solve scientific big data problems.
-* Robust storage of very large files, such as whole genome sequences, 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.
-
-The examples in this guide use the public Arvados instance located at {{site.arvados_workbench_host}}. 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.
+The examples in this guide use the Arvados instance located at {{site.arvados_workbench_host}}. 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