042. 7813 downloads of GATK 40 and counting

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created by Geraldine_VdAuwera

on 2018-01-26

Over the past two weeks and a bit, the GATK 4.0(.0.0) package has been downloaded nearly eight thousand times. That’s… not too shabby! Let’s see if y’all can take it to 8,000 before we cut the 4.0.1.0 release :)

Yes, I plan to explain the version numbering system in an upcoming blog post.

Looking back at our download records, it outdoes any previous release we’ve ever done by a factor of nearly four. Interestingly, it comes after a major slump in download numbers over the past six months, a.k.a. since we announced the GATK4 beta and the open-sourcing at the Bio-IT World meeting in May 2017. It looks like a lot of people were holding their breath waiting for the 4.0 release… I hope it was worth the wait.

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In case you’re curious, the download stats for GATK 4.x versions come from Github and are conveniently available [here](http://www.somsubhra.com/github-release-stats/?username=broadinstitute&repository=gatk). You can see that the count has increased since I looked it up earlier this evening!

Download stats for older versions come from the GATK website (because we used to host the package ourselves) and are not directly accessible publicly.