boast about --repo lh3/minimap2
boast 0.3.0 — as of 2026-08-04T06:35:40Z
━━ github:lh3/minimap2 ━━
── Code ──
stars 2228 all-time github
forks 471 all-time github
watchers 81 all-time github users watching the repo (subscribers)
repo_age_years 9.04 all-time github since 2017-07-18
contributors 51 all-time github
release_downloads 301222 all-time github summed across release assets
cohort_rank (bioinformatics) 12 all-time github
cohort_rank (genomics) 4 all-time github #4 of 4322 repos tagged 'genomics'; GitHub topics are inconsistently applied
cohort_rank (sequence-alignment) 2 all-time github
cohort_rank (spliced-alignment) 1 all-time github
── Attention ──
mentions 383 all-time openalex
mentions 855 all-time europe_pmc
── Notices ──
#12 of 15328 repos tagged 'bioinformatics'; GitHub topics are inconsistently applied
#2 of 434 repos tagged 'sequence-alignment'; GitHub topics are inconsistently applied
#1 of 6 repos tagged 'spliced-alignment'; GitHub topics are inconsistently applied
In a full report, each mentions row carries a provider-specific Notice. OpenAlex is a
partial indexed-search estimate; Europe PMC is partial and concentrated in life-sciences
literature. Neither is a formal citation count or verified literal URL count, and
self-mentions and separate article/preprint versions can count.
A reproducible research impact aggregator. Point boast at a Project — a piece of
research software identified by any of a code repository, distribution packages, and/or a
paper — and it gathers reach Metrics across four Categories (Code, Downloads,
Citations, Attention) from a curated set of pluggable Providers, records them in a
durable, timestamped Snapshot with full provenance, and renders Reports for grant
writing (terminal, Markdown, and an automatically written prose sentence).
Built for statements backed by evidence about a tool's impact — the kind you make in a grant proposal — with reproducibility and honesty as first principles: dated, attributable Snapshots you can commit and re-render, metrics that are never silently coerced to zero, and totals that never mix incompatible time windows.
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Homebrew, a PowerShell installer script, Docker, cargo, and prebuilt binaries for every platform are all covered on the docs site, along with everything else: concepts, guides, the Providers and CLI reference, automating snapshots in CI, and the design decisions behind how boast works.
Give boast a repository, package, and paper DOI and every Category reports in. The repo contributes Code metrics plus independent OpenAlex and Europe PMC scholarly-mention estimates; the package contributes Downloads and a labelled Rollup; Provider Notes explain anything that couldn't be collected:
boast about --repo lh3/minimap2 10.1093/bioinformatics/bty191 --package conda:bioconda/minimap2
boast 0.3.0 — as of 2026-08-04T06:45:44Z
━━ doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/bty191 ━━
"Minimap2: pairwise alignment for nucleotide sequences" — Heng Li, Bioinformatics, 2018
── Citations ──
citations 17232 all-time openalex
fwci 326.81 all-time openalex field-weighted citation impact; 1.0 = world average
citation_percentile 100.00 all-time openalex top 1% in its field, year, and type
citations 15403 all-time crossref times referenced, per Crossref
citations 16329 all-time dimensions
recent_citations 6207 last two calendar years dimensions resets each 1 January; not a rolling 24-month window
fcr 1768.19 all-time dimensions Field Citation Ratio; 1.0 = world average for the field and year
rcr 310.53 all-time dimensions Relative Citation Ratio; 1.0 = NIH-funded benchmark
citations 11563 all-time europe_pmc citation count from Europe PMC
── Attention ──
open_access bronze all-time openalex OpenAlex open-access status; "closed" means no open-access copy found
wikipedia_mentions 3 all-time wikipedia
altmetric N/A
━━ github:lh3/minimap2 ━━
── Code ──
stars 2228 all-time github
forks 471 all-time github
watchers 81 all-time github users watching the repo (subscribers)
repo_age_years 9.04 all-time github since 2017-07-18
contributors 51 all-time github
release_downloads 301223 all-time github summed across release assets
cohort_rank (bioinformatics) 12 all-time github
cohort_rank (genomics) 4 all-time github #4 of 4322 repos tagged 'genomics'; GitHub topics are inconsistently applied
cohort_rank (sequence-alignment) 2 all-time github
cohort_rank (spliced-alignment) 1 all-time github
── Attention ──
mentions 383 all-time openalex
mentions 855 all-time europe_pmc
━━ conda:bioconda/minimap2 ━━
── Downloads ──
downloads 1426981 all-time bioconda
═══ Downloads Rollup (derived — see channels above) ═══
1728204 all-time = github:lh3/minimap2 (301223) + conda:bioconda/minimap2 (1426981)
── Notices ──
This data has been sourced via the Dimensions Metrics API, use of which is subject to the terms at https://dimensions.ai/policies/terms/metrics/. Any use by an unregistered organization is not authorized. Please contact info@dimensions.ai for further information.
English Wikipedia full-text search hits for this DOI; other-language Wikipedias are not counted
#12 of 15328 repos tagged 'bioinformatics'; GitHub topics are inconsistently applied
#2 of 434 repos tagged 'sequence-alignment'; GitHub topics are inconsistently applied
#1 of 6 repos tagged 'spliced-alignment'; GitHub topics are inconsistently applied
── Provider Notes ──
altmetric (N/A): Altmetric attention data not collected: no Details Page API key (ALTMETRIC_KEY). An institutional licence or Altmetric's SRAD program provides one. — doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/bty191
MIT © 2026 Michael Hall