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+# Brief overview
+
+There are notebook tutorials for the each step in the analysis pipeline.
+
+### `1_tutorial_preprocessing.ipynb`
+This notebok walks through how to align the raw submissions, and the various options in this step.
+- input: folders with respective 80 `.mrc` files and a `populations.txt` file
+- output: anonymized `submission_?.pt` files with aligned populations
+
+
+### `2_tutorial_svd.ipynb`
+This notebook walks through generating and analyzing (plots) the SVD results.
+- input: `submission_?.pt` files
+- output: `svd_results.pt`
+
+
+### `3_tutorial_map2map.ipynb`
+This notebook walks through generating and analyzing (plots) the map to map distance matrix results.
+- input: one `submission_?.pt` file
+- output: a `.pkl` file
+
+
+### `4_tutorial_distribution2distribution.ipynb`
+- input: one `.pkl` file from the map2map step
+- output: a `.pkl` file
+
+### `5_tutorial_plotting.ipynb`
+This notebook walks through parsing and analyzing (plots) the map to map and distribution to distribution results.
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