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 # HEAL public documentation
-IN DEVELOPMENT
+This repository contains the public-facing documentation source code for the HEAL platform. The documentation is hosted [here](https://heal.github.io/platform-documentation/) and the HEAL platform is located here(https://healdata.org/landing).
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+The HEAL Platform itself is powered by the open-source software [Gen3](https://gen3.org/) . Gen3 was created by and is actively developed at [the University of Chicago’s Center for Translational Data Science (CTDS)](https://ctds.uchicago.edu/) with the aim of creating interoperable cloud-based data resources for the scientific research community.
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 ## Directory descriptions
 
 `docs` : contains the markdown files that are used by mkdocs to convert into website (i.e., css,html,javascript etc)