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![GUDHI](src/common/doc/Gudhi_banner.png "Topological Data Analysis (TDA) and Higher Dimensional Geometry Understanding")

The GUDHI library is a generic open source C++ library, with a Python interface, for Topological Data Analysis (TDA) and Higher Dimensional Geometry Understanding. The library offers state-of-the-art data structures and algorithms to construct simplicial complexes and compute persistent homology.

# Source code

We recommend that users get official releases from [the GUDHI website](https://gudhi.inria.fr/).

For potential contributors, to fully checkout GUDHI, after cloning the git repository, you may also need to checkout its submodules using
```sh
git submodule update --init
```

# Compilation and installation

To install GUDHI, you can follow the [C++ compilation procedure](https://gudhi.inria.fr/doc/latest/installation.html), the [Python compilation procedure](https://gudhi.inria.fr/python/latest/installation.html), use our [conda-forge package](https://gudhi.inria.fr/conda/), or [go with Docker](https://gudhi.inria.fr/dockerfile/).

# More information

* [The GUDHI website](https://gudhi.inria.fr/)
* [Contact us](https://gudhi.inria.fr/contact/)
* [Subscribe to the GUDHI users mailing list](https://gudhi.inria.fr/keepintouch/)
* [Tutorials](https://gudhi.inria.fr/tutorials/)
* [Changelog](.github/changelog.md)
