Arvados

h1. Arvados Contributor Wiki

This wiki has information related to the open source project. It's a work in progress, so come back often for updates and feel free to become a contributor.  

*Platform Overview*

[[Introduction to Arvados]]

[[Technical Architecture]]

[[Cloud Operating Systems and Virtualization]]

[[Provenance and Reproducibility]]

[[Federation and Data Sharing]]

[[Glossary of Arvados Terms]]

*Key Components*

[[Data Manager]]

[[Keep|Content Addressable Distributed File System ("Keep")]]

[[Computation and Pipeline Processing|Computation and Pipeline Processing]]

[[Workbench|Web-Based User Interface ("Workbench")]]

[[REST API Server]]

[[System and Metadata Database]] 

[[SDKs|SDKs and Command Line Interface]]

*Using Arvados*

[[Release Status]] — Important!

"User Guide":http://doc.arvados.org/user/ — How to manage data and do analysis with Arvados.

"API Reference":http://doc.arvados.org/api/ — Details about the Arvados APIs.

*Contributing and hacking*

[[Source Tree Overview|Source Tree Overview and Implementation Status]]

[[How to Contribute]]

[[Documentation|Documentation Project]]

*Community*

[[Mission and Principles]]

[[Governance]]

[[IRC and Mailing Lists]]

[[Design Process]]

[[Roadmap and Release Plan]]

[[History]]

*Legal*

[[Licensing Terms]]