h1. Arvados

_*Store, organize, analyze and share omic data.*_ 

Arvados is an open source platform for building large-scale cloud computing environments and working with NGS data and other biomedical big data. The platform provides services for data management, pipeline management, distributed computing, provenance, and high-performance analysis. It uses a horizontally scaling architecture designed to run on multiple cloud operating systems including Amazon Web Services and OpenStack. 

*Platform Overview*

[[Introduction to Arvados]]

[[Technical Architecture]]

[[Data Manager]]

[[Keep]] (content addressable storage system)

[[Pipelines]]

[[MapReduce Jobs]]

[[Workbench]] (web dashboard / console)

[[REST API Server]]

[[System and Metadata Database]] 

[[SDKs]]

[[Documentation]]

*Using Arvados*

[[Download]] -- download the code

[[Getting started]] -- sign up, log in to Workbench, log in to VM.

[[Hello World]] -- run a sample analysis pipeline, then customize the analysis.

"API Reference":http://doc.arvados.org/api/

*Contributing and hacking*

[[Source Tree Overview]]

*Community*

[[Mission and Principles]]

[[Governance]]

[[IRC and Mailing Lists]]

[[How to Contribute]]

[[Design Process]]

[[Roadmap and Release Plan]]

[[History]]

*Legal*

[[Licensing Terms]]

[[Website Privacy Policy]]

[[Website Terms of Use]]