Source Repositories - Overview

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Introduction

Anchor’s source-code is distributed across several source-code repositories on GitHub. The bulk of source-code is Java, followed by many pipeline XML files, and some miscellaneous other tools in other languages.

Java repositories

Repository	Java Package Root & Description	Modules	Functions	Classes	Lines‑of‑Code
anchor	org.anchoranalysis Main libraries for Anchor platform	31	7k	1.6k	63k
anchor-plugins	org.anchoranalysis.plugin Main set of plugins - MIT-licensed	13	2.8k	0.9k	40k
anchor-plugins-gpl	org.anchoranalysis.plugin.gpl Additional GPL-licensed plugins	2	0.05k	0.02k	1.1k
anchor-launcher	org.anchoranalysis.launcher Additional GPL-licensed plugins	1	0.2k	0.02k	3k
anchor-assembly	org.anchoranalysis Launcher, creates a distribution	1	-	-	-

Number of classes/code is as per SonarQube, October 19th, 2025. Lines-of-code excludes whitespace and comments.

Non-Java repositories

Repository	Type	Description
anchor-pom	Maven	A parent Maven POM file used by the other Anchor Java repositories.
anchor-r	R	R packages for processing data produced by Anchor.
anchor-python-sphinx	Python	Common documentation generation configuration for Sphinx.
anchor-python-utilities	Python	Shared utility functions and classes across Anchor Python projects.
anchor-python-training	Python	Python scripts for training CNNs from images.
anchor-python-visualization	Python	Python scripts for visualizing outputs from Anchor.
anchoranalysis.github.io	HTML	The anchor website, generated by Jekyll.
javadoc	Maven	A parent Maven POM file used by the other Anchor Java repositories.

Java Repositories for dependency projects

Source-code that is closely connected to Anchor but maintained independently elsewhere.

Repository	Java Package Root	Description
path-pattern-finder	com.owenfeehan.pathpatternfinder	Finds patterns in paths or strings