Introduction

On this page you can see the beating heart of sanger-tol - the size of our community and the output of our work.

Click to expand: How these numbers are collected and what caveats should be considered

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 pull and nextflow run uses 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 2025-06-12).

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

43

GitHub organisation members

156

GitHub contributors

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.

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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).

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Code stats

Whilst we always prefer quality over quantity, these numbers reflect the work output from the sanger-tol community.

16

Repositories

902

Pull Requests

7.14K

Commits

694

Issues

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.

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30.42K
Clones since January 1970
6.15K
Unique cloners since January 1970
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103.44K
Views since January 1970
12.67K
Unique visitors since January 1970

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.

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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

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Issues

GitHub issues can be created to log feature requests, bug reports or questions.

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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

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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!
  • main branch only, and all of the other caveats..
@DLBPointon
2543
 treeval 1509
@muffato
1343
 blobtoolkit 331
@yumisims
603
 treeval 414
@weaglesBio
449
 treeval 434
@priyanka-surana
448
 readmapping 150
@gq1
335
 variantcalling 240
@prototaxites
332
 metagenomeassembly 218
@tkchafin
259
 readmapping 116
@BethYates
236
 genomenote 234
@alxndrdiaz
177
 blobtoolkit 177
@SandraBabirye
156
 genomenote 156
@zb32
blobtoolkit 121
@ksenia-krasheninnikova
genomeassembly 52
@eeaunin
ascc 30
@mahesh-panchal
curationpretext 29
@reichan1998
readmapping 10
@sanger-tolsoft
blobtoolkit 3
@nf-core-bot
variantcalling 2
@sujaikumar
blobtoolkit 2
@scorreard
curationpretext 1

Pipeline numbers

All sanger-tol pipelines are only considered stable when they have at least one release. Until then, they are classed as "in development".

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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: 16 pipelines 82 20 unique 7140 123 103 49 30423 6149 103438 12670
sanger-tol/blobtoolkit 3 years 8 11 851 12 7 5 2609 519 9571 1381
sanger-tol/ensemblgenedownload 3 years 5 3 145 1 6 2 500 188 595 133
sanger-tol/ensemblrepeatdownload 3 years 3 3 153 1 6 1 465 168 528 109
sanger-tol/genomeassembly 3 years 0 8 275 20 13 4 2835 501 13651 1602
sanger-tol/genomenote 3 years 13 7 732 26 6 8 3480 688 11821 1641
sanger-tol/insdcdownload 3 years 5 4 216 1 7 2 817 282 1567 208
sanger-tol/readmapping 3 years 10 5 404 13 5 6 1550 406 9321 1118
sanger-tol/sequencecomposition 3 years 2 3 144 2 6 2 697 217 951 205
sanger-tol/treeval 3 years 7 6 2428 25 7 5 6049 931 29420 3089
sanger-tol/variantcalling 3 years 8 6 327 7 9 9 1618 403 7076 836
sanger-tol/curationpretext 2 years 9 7 376 8 7 5 2932 695 6086 942
sanger-tol/ascc 2 years 3 5 721 5 7 0 4058 701 10281 963
sanger-tol/genealignment 12 months 0 1 1 0 4 0 81 69 118 38
sanger-tol/ear 11 months 3 1 143 0 4 0 730 162 1139 136
sanger-tol/metagenomeassembly 1 year 6 2 223 2 5 0 1785 177 948 234
sanger-tol/zippypretext 2 months 0 1 1 0 4 0 217 42 365 35
  Name Age Releases Committers Commits Stargazers Watchers Network Forks Clones Unique cloners Repo views Unique repo visitors