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first test of a markdown based docs directory, no redmine yet

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+% A sample Markdown page
+
+[comment]: <> (QA: This is a comment, it will not appear in the HTML)
+
+# Overview of the Genome Browser
+
+The genome browser requires humans:
+
+- sample unnumbered list line 1
+- item 2 and `backticks`
+
+# Requirements
+
+A bulleted list:
+
+* There
+* Here
+* 'with links' map plotting tools <http://www.soest.hawaii.edu/gmt/>
+* Redhat/Fedora/CentOS: `yum install libpng12 httpd ghostscript GMT hdf5 R libuuid-devel MySQL-python`
+
+A command:
+
+    rsync -hna --stats rsync://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/gbdb/ | egrep "Number of files:|total size is"
+
+A list and code under it:
+
+1. Topic 1
+
+        XBitHack on
+        <Directory /usr/local/apache/htdocs>
+        Options +Includes
+        </Directory>
+ 
+2. Topic 2
+
+       mysql -u browser -pgenome -e 'show tables;' mysql
+
+    MariaDB can be run from the command line, and
+    the tables from the database MariaDB can be displayed.
+