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 2026-07-06).
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
@muffato
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@gq1
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@SandraBabirye
@zb32
@mahesh-panchal
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@eeaunin
@sanger-tolsoft
@cduong11
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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 | 136 | 25 unique | 10195 | 168 | 107 | 75 | 117966 | 24157 | 159433 | 29853 | |
| sanger-tol/blobtoolkit | 4 years | 12 | 14 | 1037 | 16 | 8 | 6 | 9441 | 2497 | 25263 | 10824 | |
| sanger-tol/ensemblgenedownload | 4 years | 5 | 3 | 145 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 1046 | 496 | 812 | 187 | |
| sanger-tol/ensemblrepeatdownload | 4 years | 3 | 3 | 153 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 1103 | 477 | 655 | 167 | |
| sanger-tol/genomeassembly | 4 years | 0 | 10 | 398 | 32 | 12 | 9 | 11572 | 2466 | 18121 | 2743 | |
| sanger-tol/genomenote | 4 years | 15 | 10 | 1045 | 26 | 6 | 10 | 7235 | 2097 | 14586 | 2301 | |
| sanger-tol/insdcdownload | 4 years | 6 | 7 | 308 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 1598 | 690 | 1961 | 325 | |
| sanger-tol/readmapping | 4 years | 14 | 10 | 917 | 17 | 5 | 8 | 10568 | 2399 | 15549 | 2034 | |
| sanger-tol/sequencecomposition | 4 years | 4 | 5 | 216 | 2 | 6 | 3 | 2307 | 736 | 1312 | 408 | |
| sanger-tol/treeval | 4 years | 15 | 9 | 2816 | 31 | 7 | 7 | 9952 | 2208 | 35466 | 4077 | |
| sanger-tol/variantcalling | 4 years | 21 | 11 | 593 | 11 | 9 | 9 | 7892 | 1857 | 12652 | 1582 | |
| sanger-tol/curationpretext | 3 years | 14 | 8 | 519 | 13 | 7 | 5 | 6840 | 1998 | 9849 | 1893 | |
| sanger-tol/ascc | 3 years | 9 | 6 | 1212 | 7 | 7 | 3 | 34958 | 2734 | 14591 | 1744 | |
| sanger-tol/genealignment | 2 years | 0 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 201 | 181 | 166 | 53 | |
| sanger-tol/ear | 2 years | 4 | 2 | 157 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 1269 | 433 | 1571 | 214 | |
| sanger-tol/metagenomeassembly | 2 years | 12 | 4 | 338 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 6012 | 1216 | 2754 | 765 | |
| sanger-tol/zippypretext | 1 year | 0 | 2 | 48 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 506 | 222 | 725 | 104 | |
| sanger-tol/variantcomposition | 1 year | 0 | 4 | 140 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 2298 | 620 | 2360 | 288 | |
| sanger-tol/nfmicrofinder | 11 months | 1 | 2 | 58 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 358 | 170 | 292 | 36 | |
| sanger-tol/purging | 7 months | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 208 | 159 | 50 | 17 | |
| sanger-tol/tollongc | 4 months | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 177 | 102 | 86 | 17 | |
| sanger-tol/busco | 2 years | 1 | 3 | 86 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 2425 | 399 | 612 | 74 | |
| Name | Age | Releases | Committers | Commits | Stargazers | Watchers | Network Forks | Clones | Unique cloners | Repo views | Unique repo visitors |