Impact
In production on 7+ platforms, the oldest of them running since 2016.
- 7+
- platforms in production today
- 310
- published releases across 11 years
- 3
- active grants funding the platform
Deployments
| Deployment | What it is | Led by | Runs | Live since | Link |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pan-Canadian Genome Library | A federal genomic infrastructure initiative for Canadian genomic data, hosted at McGill University. | McGill University · Canada | Launched 2026 | ||
| Ontario Hereditary Cancer Research Network | A provincial network linking hereditary cancer research data across Ontario institutions. | OICR · Canada | Launched 2025 | ||
| OICR Drug Discovery Portal | One lab's own cancer genomics portal: ~405 million records across genes, mutations and protein interactions, mined for drug targets. | OICR, a single research group · Canada | Launched 2025 | ||
| iMicroSeq | 600,000+ pathogen genomes and environmental wastewater surveillance, open access, launched as the Canadian VirusSeq Data Portal. | OICR and a national consortium · Canada | Launched 2021 | ||
| IHCC | The International Health Cohorts Consortium atlas: 70 cohorts, most of them a hundred thousand participants or more. | International consortium · Multi-national | Launched 2020 | ||
| ICGC-ARGO | Genomic and clinical data for 100,000+ participants, harmonized across 27 programs in 15 countries. | International consortium · Multi-national | Launched 2019 | ||
| Human Cancer Models Initiative | A searchable catalogue of 275 unique cancer models with their genomic and clinical annotation. | US National Cancer Institute · USA | Launched 2016 | ||
| CQDG | Ferlab's data platform for the Centre québécois de données génomiques, built on active forks of Lectern and Arranger it upgraded and patched into 2026. | Ferlab, CHU Sainte-Justine · Montréal, Canada | — | ||
| AGARI | Africa CDC's continent-wide pathogen genomics resource, launched November 2025 across four member states with the African Society for Laboratory Medicine and SANBI. | Africa CDC · Continent-wide, Africa | — | — |
Publications
Overture: an open-source genomics data platform
GigaScience (2025) · 10.1093/gigascience/giaf038
The platform paper: peer reviewed, open access, 38 authors. Start here.
The Canadian VirusSeq Data Portal and Duotang
Microbial Genomics (2024) · 10.1099/mgen.0.001293
An independent account of Canada's national SARS-CoV-2 portal, written by the team that ran it and built on Search (Arranger).
Scientific Data (2025) · 10.1038/s41597-025-06068-4
The dictionary standard Dictionary Manager (Lectern) serves at ICGC-ARGO.
Making genomic data FAIR through effective Data Portals
Scientific Data (2025) · 10.1038/s41597-025-06142-x
A third-party review of the field that cites Overture among the data portal platforms it surveys.
The Overture Dictionary Viewer: transforming machine-readable Lectern schemas into accessible, interactive displays for any data model
Pending · Pending
A component-level paper on Dictionary Manager (Lectern), under review and carrying no DOI yet.
How to cite Overture is on the documentation site, with the full author list and a citation block.
Distribution and release history
Packages
48,854
downloads in the twelve months to 9 August 2026, across 13 published packages.
- sqon-builder
- 8,837
- arranger-components
- 6,703
- lectern-client
- 5,252
- lyric
- 4,973
- arranger-charts
- 4,792
- lectern-validation
- 4,448
- lyric-data-model
- 4,387
- lectern-dictionary
- 4,369
- arranger-server
- 1,732
- lectern-ui
- 1,601
- sqon
- 570
Container images
611,411
cumulative pulls of the seven components’ images on Docker Hub, led by Dictionary Manager (Lectern) at 225,229, File Manager (Song), server and client at 184,453, File Transfer (Score) at 126,086. Docker Hub is the historical registry. Current distribution is the GitHub Container Registry, which publishes no pull count but carries 441 tags for arranger-server, 139 tags for lectern, 122 tags for score-server, 102 tags for song-server, 85 tags for lyric. The figure above therefore stops growing at the point distribution moved, and understates use rather than overstating it.
Releases
310
310 published releases in total: npm packages, container images, and merged release builds where that is a component's own mechanism, counted from each one's registry rather than from git tags, which this org uses too inconsistently to total on their own, spanning 11 years of continuous release activity. All seven components are developed in the open under an OSI-approved AGPL-3.0 licence.