=head1 NAME

Genome - pipelines, tools, and data managment for genomics

=head1 SYNOPSIS

 use Genome;

 # modules in the Genome namespace will now dynamically load

 @i = Genome::InstrumentData::Illumina->get(...);
 $m = Genome::Model::SomaticVariation->create(...);

=head1 DESCRIPTION

This is the base namespace module for the Genome software tree.

That tree has several primary components:

 Genome::Model:         a data modeling pipeline management system for genomics 

 Genome::Model::Tools   a tree of >1000 tools and tool wrappers for genomics

 Genome::*              a variety of sample tracking classes with an RDBMS back-end

Only the tools system is currently released.  

See B<gmt> for a complete inventory of all tool packages, and for command-line access to
those tools.

=head1 AUTHORS

This software is developed by the analysis and engineering teams at 
The Genome Center at Washington Univiersity in St. Louis, with funding from 
the National Human Genome Research Institute.

=head1 LICENSE

This software is copyright Washington University in St. Louis, 2007-2010.  

It is released under the Lesser GNU Public License (LGPL) version 3.  See the 
associated LICENSE file in this distribution.

=head1 BUGS

For defects with any software in the genome namespace,
contact genome-dev ~at~ genome.wustl.edu.

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