# 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).