lh3
Heng Li Joined Nov 2010 4,425 followers View on GitHub
- Stars
- 13,045
- across 108 public repos
- Rank
- #2,267
- of 324,727 users, top 0.7%
- Down 6 places this week
Repositories with 50+ stars
| Rank | Repository | Language | Stars |
|---|---|---|---|
| 29,976 | A versatile pairwise aligner for genomic and spliced nucleotide sequences | C | 2,269 |
| 38,577 | Burrow-Wheeler Aligner for short-read alignment (see minimap2 for long-read alignment) | C | 1,776 |
| 43,749 | Toolkit for processing sequences in FASTA/Q formats | C | 1,568 |
| 100,045 | BWK awk modified for biological data | C | 643 |
| 127,024 | Sequence-to-graph mapper and graph generator | C | 494 |
| 144,511 | Align proteins to genomes with splicing and frameshift | C | 427 |
| 166,832 | Successor of bwa-mem for short-read alignment | C | 363 |
| 168,034 | Ultrafast de novo assembly for long noisy reads (though having no consensus step) | TeX | 360 |
| 201,560 | Reads simulator | C | 292 |
| 225,468 | Tools for manipulating sequence graphs in the GFA and rGFA formats | C | 256 |
| 262,589 | Constructing a pangenome gene graph | C | 213 |
| 283,621 | Implementation of the Pairwise Sequentially Markovian Coalescent (PSMC) model | C | 194 |
| 295,156 | Benchmarking programming languages/implementations for common tasks in Bioinformatics | C | 185 |
| 303,240 | Fast multi-line FASTA/Q reader in several programming languages | C | 179 |
| 303,240 | Yet another k-mer analyzer | C | 179 |
| 308,966 | Code examples of fast and simple k-mer counters for tutorial purposes | C++ | 175 |
| 316,597 | A C/C++ library for fast interval overlap queries (with a "bedtools coverage" example) | C | 170 |
| 356,742 | A simple toolset for BED files (warning: CLI may change before bedtk becomes stable) | C | 147 |
| 360,673 | Global alignment and alignment extension | C | 145 |
| 384,613 | BWT construction and search | C | 134 |
| 414,872 | TAD calling, phase imputation, 3D modeling and more for diploid single-cell Hi-C (Dip-C) and general Hi-C | C | 122 |
| 420,327 | Reference-based variant calling pipeline for a pair of phased haplotype assemblies | JavaScript | 120 |
| 447,150 | SRF: Satellite Repeat Finder | TeX | 111 |
| 450,284 | De novo assembly based variant calling pipeline for Illumina short reads | TeX | 110 |
| 463,694 | This repo is DEPRECATED. Please use minimap2, the successor of minimap. | C | 106 |
| 466,895 | Identify long STRs, VNTRs, satellite DNA and other low-complexity regions in a genome | C | 105 |
| 500,875 | Simple pileup-based variant caller | C | 96 |
| 504,943 | Flexible genotype query among 30,000+ samples whole-genome | C | 95 |
| 541,286 | A EXPERIMENTAL fork of minimap2 optimized for assembly-to-reference alignment | C | 87 |
| 572,689 | Model and predict short DNA sequence features with neural networks | C | 81 |
| 608,150 | High-performance error correction for Illumina resequencing data | TeX | 75 |
| 614,542 | A WGS de novo assembler based on the FMD-index for large genomes | C | 74 |
| 627,850 | Incremental construction of FM-index for DNA sequences | TeX | 72 |
| 627,850 | Standalone C library for assembling Illumina short reads in small regions | C | 72 |
| 634,685 | Open Human Genome Library | 71 | |
| 664,599 | Human reference genome analysis sets | Makefile | 67 |
| 706,696 | Toolkit for processing TAB-delimited format | C | 62 |
| 724,734 | Scoring GT/AG sites for improving spliced alignment | C | 60 |
| 754,618 | Proof-of-concept implementation of GWFA for sequence-to-graph alignment | C | 57 |
| 775,760 | TeX | 55 | |
| 822,902 | Exact Tandem Repeat Finder (not a TRF replacement) | C | 51 |
| 822,902 | A reimplementation of the WaveFront Alignment algorithm at low memory | C | 51 |
| 835,459 | Symmetric DUST for finding low-complexity regions in DNA sequences | C | 50 |
Among 324,727 users
10k–16k stars: 1,475 users, including lh3
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Languages
- C 10.8k stars, 83% · 33 repos
- TeX 783 stars, 6% · 6 repos
- C++ 175 stars, 1% · 1 repo
- JavaScript 120 stars, 1% · 1 repo
- Makefile 67 stars, 1% · 1 repo
When they were made
43 repos with 50+ stars, made between 2011 and 2025
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- Public repos
- 108, 43 with 50+ stars
- Popular repos
- 26 over 100 stars, 3 over 1k stars
- Top repo
- minimap2, #29,976 of all repos, 17% of stars
- Smaller repos
- 1,026 stars from repos under 50