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-# DiDa.jl
+# DiDa.jl
+
+Simple Distributed Data manipulation and processing routines for Julia.
+
+This was originally developed for
+[GigaSOM.jl](https://github.com/LCSB-BioCore/GigaSOM.jl), this package contains
+the separated-out lightweight distributed-processing framework that can be used
+with GigaSOM.
+
