Song
August 6, 2026 ยท View on GitHub
Song functions as a file catalog system, tracking files and managing their metadata. To manage file transfers to and from object storage Song interacts with its required companion application, Score.
Song is part of Overture, a collection of open-source software microservices used to create platforms for researchers to organize and share genomics data.
Documentation
Technical resources for those working with or contributing to the project live in the /docs folder of this repository, and are also published, fully rendered, on our official documentation site.
Development Environment
- Java 11 (OpenJDK)
- Maven 3.5+ (or use provided wrapper)
- VS Code or preferred Java IDE
- Docker Container platform
Support & Contributions
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For support, feature requests, and bug reports, please see our Support Guide.
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For detailed information on how to contribute to this project, please see our Contributing Guide.
Related Software
The Overture Platform includes the following Overture Components:
| Software | Description |
|---|---|
| Score | Transfer data to and from any cloud-based storage system |
| Song | Catalog and manage metadata associated to file data spread across cloud storage systems |
| Maestro | Organizing your distributed data into a centralized Elasticsearch index |
| Arranger | A search API with reusable search UI components |
| Stage | A React-based web portal scaffolding |
| Lyric | A model-agnostic, tabular data submission system |
| Lectern | Schema Manager, designed to validate, store, and manage collections of data dictionaries. |
Funding Acknowledgement
Overture is supported by grant #U24CA253529 from the National Cancer Institute at the US National Institutes of Health, and additional funding from Genome Canada, the Canada Foundation for Innovation, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Canarie, and the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research.
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