Welcome!
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.
Take It for a Spin
Run your first pipeline in 3 quick steps:
First, log-in or register with any Google account if you haven't already.
- Go to the Dashboard > Run a pipeline...
- Mason Lab -- Ancestry Mapper (public) > Next: choose inputs
- Run
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!
Six Reasons Arvados is Awesome
This guide, and in fact all of Workbench, is just a teaser for the full power of Arvados:
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Reproducible analyses: Enough said.
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Data provenance: Every file in Arvados can tell you where it came from.
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Serious scaling: Need 500 GB of space? 200 compute hours? Arvados scales and parallelizes your work for you intelligently.
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Share pipelines or data: Easily publish your work to the world, just like the Pathomap team did.
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Use existing pipelines: Use best-practices pipelines on your own data with the click of a button.
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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.
That's all, folks! Click the "x" up top to leave this guide.