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 Validated, scalable, community developed variant calling, RNA-seq and small RNA analysis. You write a high level configuration file specifying your inputs and analysis parameters. This input drives a parallel run that handles distributed execution, idempotent processing restarts and safe transactional steps. bcbio provides a shared community resource that handles the data processing component of sequencing analysis, providing researchers with more time to focus on the downstream biology.
 
+**NOTE!!!! Please read the notice of [discontinuation of this project](https://github.com/bcbio/bcbio-nextgen/issues/3749) - 08-16-2024**
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