Introduction
On this page you can see the beating heart of sanger-tol - the size of our community and the output of our work.
Please bear in mind the following points when looking over these numbers:
- Pipelines maybe worked on before they are transferred to sanger-tol. The age, stars and other metrics of the original parent repository are not shown.
- Metrics are for the default (
main) branch only - Commits and contributors are only counted if associated with a GitHub account
nextflow pullandnextflow runuses git to clone a remote repo the first time it runs, so the clones count gives some idea of usage. However:- Unique cloners is based on IP address, so will under-represent institutional users sharing a single external IP address
- Unique cloners is based on IP address, so will over-represent cloud users using multiple IP addresses
- Traditional HPC centres may share workflow installations, so only have one clone for many users / pipeline runs
- Cloud users will typically spin up a new instance and clone the workflow every time that they run a pipeline.
- Clone counts and repositoriy views are only available for two weeks - longer term data collection for sanger-tol repos started in July 2023 This is when we started counting the totals.
- Metrics are fetched once per day (last checked 2026-08-24).
Community
The numbers below track our growth over the various channels that the sanger-tol community operates in.
Click a number to see how the community has grown over time
GitHub organisation members
We use GitHub to manage all of the code written for sanger-tol. It's a fantastic platform and provides a huge number of tools. We have a GitHub organisation called sanger-tol.
It is not required to be a member of the sanger-tol GitHub organisation to contribute. However, members get the sanger-tol logo listed on their profile page and full write-access to all sanger-tol repositories.
By default, organisation membership is private. This is why you'll see a lower number if you visit the sanger-tol organisation page and are not a member.
GitHub contributors
Anybody can fork sanger-tol repositories and open a pull-request. Here we count how many different people have contributed at least one commit to an sanger-tol repository, or created or commented on an issue or pull-request.
Plot truncated to start of 2022 (some pipelines moved to sanger-tol so have older contributions).
Code stats
Whilst we always prefer quality over quantity, these numbers reflect the work output from the sanger-tol community.
Repository traffic
Every time a nextflow user pulls a sanger-tol pipeline, the repository is cloned. Here we can track how much that happens across all sanger-tol repositories. Please note that these numbers come with some caveats [ see more ].
Additionally, GitHub tracks how many times people view repository web pages on github.com.
Pull Requests
When people contribute code to a sanger-tol repository, we conduct a "Pull request" - other members of the sanger-tol community review the proposed code and make suggestions, before merging into the main repository.
Pull Request response times
Pull-requests are reviewed by the sanger-tol community - they can contain discussion on the code and can be merged and closed. We aim to be prompt with reviews and merging. Note that some PRs can be a simple type and so very fast to merge, others can be major pipeline updates.
First response is when a comment is made by a GitHub user other than the original PR author
Issues
GitHub issues can be created to log feature requests, bug reports or questions.
Issue response times
A sign of an active community is a quick response time to issues. Here we see a frequency histogram of how long it takes to respond to and close issues.
First response is when a comment is made by a GitHub user other than the original issue author
Contributor Leaderboard
We value each and every contribution to sanger-tol, no matter how small. However, that doesn't mean that we can not get competitive!
Here are the latest stats of who has contributed the greatest number of commits.
Remember
- There is more to contributing than commits! We're not counting issue comments, reviews or anything else here.
- People merging pull-requests get bonus commit counts from those merge commits.
- Some people commit often, others not so much. So it's not a perfect representation of amount of work - just a bit of fun!
mainbranch only, and all of the other caveats..
@DLBPointon
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@gq1
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@BethYates
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@sanger-tolsoft
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@nf-core-bot
@sujaikumar
@scorreard
@tbrown91Pipeline numbers
All sanger-tol pipelines are only considered stable when they have at least one release. Until then, they are classed as "in development".
Pipelines
Click a row to see detailed statistics for that repository.
| Name | Age | Releases | Committers | Commits | Stargazers | Watchers | Network Forks | Clones | Unique cloners | Repo views | Unique repo visitors | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total: | 21 pipelines | 142 | 25 unique | 10505 | 179 | 106 | 76 | 126338 | 26821 | 164131 | 31685 | |
| sanger-tol/blobtoolkit | 4 years | 14 | 15 | 1245 | 18 | 8 | 6 | 10330 | 2737 | 26397 | 11673 | |
| sanger-tol/ensemblgenedownload | 4 years | 5 | 3 | 145 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 1127 | 549 | 833 | 197 | |
| sanger-tol/ensemblrepeatdownload | 4 years | 3 | 3 | 153 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 1234 | 536 | 660 | 172 | |
| sanger-tol/genomeassembly | 4 years | 1 | 10 | 420 | 35 | 12 | 9 | 12556 | 2843 | 18779 | 2926 | |
| sanger-tol/genomenote | 4 years | 15 | 10 | 1045 | 27 | 6 | 9 | 7921 | 2392 | 14679 | 2358 | |
| sanger-tol/insdcdownload | 4 years | 6 | 7 | 308 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 1756 | 761 | 2004 | 331 | |
| sanger-tol/readmapping | 4 years | 15 | 10 | 936 | 20 | 5 | 8 | 11869 | 2674 | 16257 | 2144 | |
| sanger-tol/sequencecomposition | 4 years | 4 | 5 | 216 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 2459 | 800 | 1573 | 444 | |
| sanger-tol/treeval | 4 years | 16 | 9 | 2816 | 31 | 7 | 7 | 10093 | 2297 | 35764 | 4206 | |
| sanger-tol/variantcalling | 4 years | 21 | 11 | 593 | 11 | 9 | 9 | 8233 | 1978 | 12938 | 1715 | |
| sanger-tol/curationpretext | 3 years | 14 | 8 | 519 | 14 | 7 | 5 | 7047 | 2130 | 10011 | 1975 | |
| sanger-tol/ascc | 3 years | 9 | 6 | 1212 | 8 | 7 | 4 | 35286 | 2880 | 15001 | 1799 | |
| sanger-tol/genealignment | 2 years | 0 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 212 | 191 | 169 | 56 | |
| sanger-tol/ear | 2 years | 4 | 2 | 157 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 1308 | 466 | 1586 | 227 | |
| sanger-tol/metagenomeassembly | 2 years | 12 | 4 | 338 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 6974 | 1401 | 2927 | 820 | |
| sanger-tol/zippypretext | 1 year | 0 | 2 | 48 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 560 | 259 | 728 | 107 | |
| sanger-tol/variantcomposition | 2 years | 0 | 5 | 170 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 3443 | 803 | 2559 | 324 | |
| sanger-tol/nfmicrofinder | 1 year | 2 | 4 | 86 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 741 | 251 | 304 | 43 | |
| sanger-tol/purging | 9 months | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 234 | 175 | 55 | 20 | |
| sanger-tol/tollongc | 5 months | 0 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 262 | 138 | 89 | 20 | |
| sanger-tol/busco | 2 years | 1 | 3 | 86 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2693 | 560 | 818 | 128 | |
| Name | Age | Releases | Committers | Commits | Stargazers | Watchers | Network Forks | Clones | Unique cloners | Repo views | Unique repo visitors |