Appendix: Deploying the Generic Member Node
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The :term:`GMN` Server supports the `DataONE Member Node API`_ and can be used as a general data and metadata repository.  The GMN is used both as a Python reference implementation of the DataONE MemberNode API a working command-line based member node implementation.  

For current information on downloading and deploying the GMN stack, see the `GMN Documentation on PythonHosted.org`_.

.. _GMN Documentation on PythonHosted.org: http://pythonhosted.org/dataone.generic_member_node/