# Mitosis: A Unified Transport Evaluation Framework
**Mitosis** is a Rust library and a command line tool to run distributed platforms for transport research.
This guide is an example of how to use **Mitosis** to run a simple distributed platform to parallelize your tasks.
It is designed for transport-layer research, but it can be used for any other purpose.
## Usage
Please check our [User Guide](https://docs.stack.rs/mitosis) for how to use **Mitosis**.
## Contributing
**Mitosis** is free and open source. You can find the source code on
[GitHub](https://github.com/stack-rs/mitosis) and issues and feature requests can be posted on
the [GitHub issue tracker](https://github.com/stack-rs/mitosis/issues). **Mitosis** relies on the community to fix bugs and
add features: if you'd like to contribute, please read
the [CONTRIBUTING](https://github.com/stack-rs/mitosis/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md) guide and consider opening
a [pull request](https://github.com/stack-rs/mitosis/pulls).