diff --git a/scripts/adam-console.sh b/scripts/adam-console.sh
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+++ b/scripts/adam-console.sh
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+#!/bin/bash
+
+DIR="$( cd "$( dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}" )" && pwd )"
+PROJECT_ROOT="$DIR/.."
+VERSION=$(grep "<version>" "$PROJECT_ROOT/pom.xml"  | head -2 | tail -1 | sed 's/ *<version>//g' | sed 's/<\/version>//g')
+ADAM_JAR=$PROJECT_ROOT/adam-cli/target/adam-$VERSION.jar
+
+SPARK_CLASSPATH=$ADAM_JAR spark-shell -i:$DIR/scala-console.scala
diff --git a/scripts/scala-console.scala b/scripts/scala-console.scala
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+import org.bdgenomics.adam.avro.ADAMRecord
+import org.bdgenomics.adam.avro.ADAMNucleotideContigFragment
+import org.bdgenomics.adam.avro.ADAMPileup
+import org.bdgenomics.adam.avro.ADAMNestedPileup
+import org.bdgenomics.adam.avro.ADAMContig
+import org.bdgenomics.adam.avro.ADAMVariant
+import org.bdgenomics.adam.avro.VariantCallingAnnotations
+import org.bdgenomics.adam.avro.ADAMGenotype
+import org.bdgenomics.adam.avro.VariantEffect
+import org.bdgenomics.adam.avro.ADAMDatabaseVariantAnnotation
+import org.apache.spark.rdd.RDD
+import org.bdgenomics.adam.rdd.ADAMContext
+import org.bdgenomics.adam.rdd.ADAMContext._
+println("\nYou can call ADAMContext methods on sc")
+println("Load a file using: sc.adamLoad(\"<Path to file>\");")