GitHub Repositories for Sequencing Companies

I saw this Tweet a few days ago from Jeremy Leipzig counting the number of GitHub repositories that sequencing-related companies have on their organization page, but was immediately curious how many of these had an open-source license versus a restrictive or unknown license.

I tried to one-shot this with GPT-5 given a screenshot of Jeremy's Tweet and a few instructions. It got me 90% of the way but I had to make a few tweaks here and there. The code1 uses the gh R package to access the GitHub API, pulls all the repos from each organization, extracts the license, and classifies it as open / permissive if it's something like MIT, BSD, Apache, various flavors of GPL, and certain CC licenses, and restrictive / unknown if it's anything else or unlisted. Note, "insightsengineering" is Roche/Genentech.

Here's the full data retrieved using this code.

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