What you're looking at right now is Workbench, the graphical interface to the Arvados system.

Click the Next > button below for a speed tour of Arvados.

Note: You can always come back to this Getting Started guide by clicking the in the upper-right corner.

Run your first pipeline in 3 quick steps:

Voila! Your pipeline is now spooling up and getting ready to run!

Go ahead, try it for yourself right now.

Or click Next > below to keep reading!

1. Pipeline — A re-usable series of analysis steps.
   • Also known as a “workflow” in other systems
   • A list of well-documented public pipelines can be found in the upper right corner by clicking the > Public Pipelines and Datasets
   • Pro-tip: A Pipeline contains Jobs which contain Tasks
   • Pipelines can only be shared within a project
2. Collection — Like a folder, but better.
   • Upload data right in your browser
   • Better than a folder?
     • Collections contain the content-address of the data instead of the data itself
     • Sets of data can be flexibly defined and re-defined without duplicating data
   • Collections can be shared using the "Sharing and Permissions" > "Share" button
3. Projects — Contain pipelines templates, pipeline instances (individual runs of a pipeline), and collections.
   • The most useful one is your default "Home" project, under Projects > Home
   • Projects can be shared using the "sharing" tab

This guide, and in fact all of Workbench, is just a teaser for the full power of Arvados:

1. Reproducible analyses: Enough said.
2. Data provenance: Every file in Arvados can tell you where it came from.
3. Serious scaling: Need 500 GB of space? 200 compute hours? Arvados scales and parallelizes your work for you intelligently.
4. Share pipelines or data: Easily publish your work to the world, just like the Pathomap team did.
5. Use existing pipelines: Use best-practices pipelines on your own data with the click of a button.
6. Open source: Arvados is completely open source. Check out our developer site.

Want to use the command-line, or hungry to learn more? Check out the User Guide at doc.arvados.org.

Questions still? Head over to doc.arvados.org to find mailing-list and contact info for the Arvados community.

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