.. _sec-overview:

.. py:currentmodule:: hail

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Hail Overview
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Hail is a library for analyzing structured tabular and matrix data. Hail
contains a collection of primitives for operating on data in parallel, as well
as a suite of functionality for processing genetic data.

This section of Hail's documentation contains detailed explanations of Hail's
architecture, primitives, classes, and libraries.

.. toctree::
    :maxdepth: 2

    Expressions <expressions.rst>
    Tables <table.rst>
    MatrixTables <matrix_table.rst>