# Welcome to the Hail community!

**URL:** <https://discuss.hail.is/t/welcome-to-the-hail-community/8>\
**Category:** Updates\
**Created:** [August 26, 2016, 7:39pm UTC](https://discuss.hail.is/t/welcome-to-the-hail-community/8 "2016-08-26T19:39:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/uploads/hail/original/1X/2a15664411c44c702bb3c5cfe091a4f95a9927b0.png) [@system](https://discuss.hail.is/u/system)\
**Post date:** [August 26, 2016, 7:39pm UTC](https://discuss.hail.is/t/welcome-to-the-hail-community/8/1 "2016-08-26T19:39:27Z")

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Welcome to the discussion forum for Hail, an open-source, scalable framework for exploring and analyzing genetic data.

The Hail team is based in the Neale Lab at the [Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research](http://www.broadinstitute.org/scientific-community/science/programs/psychiatric-disease/stanley-center-psychiatric-research/stanle) of the [Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard](http://www.broadinstitute.org) and the [Analytic and Translational Genetics Unit](https://www.atgu.mgh.harvard.edu/) of [Massachusetts General Hospital](http://www.massgeneral.org/).