Package Insights
Package Risks
- No releases in 373 days despite active commits
- High downloads but no recent maintenance activity
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
30
Popularity
63
Adoption
62
Community
70
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
471 days ago
Monthly downloads
19,439
Active
Activity within 30 days
Stable
Activity within 31-180 days
Minimal
Activity within 181-365 days, or no activity data
•
At Risk
No activity for > 365 days, but > 10,000 monthly downloads
Archived
Repository flagged as archived on GitHub
How the popularity category was determined
Monthly downloads
19,439
Stars
644
Stars per 1k downloads
33.13
Industry Standard
> 10,000,000 monthly downloads
Hidden Gem
< 0.5 stars per 1k downloads and > 100,000 monthly downloads
•
Community Favorite
> 5 stars per 1k downloads
Rising Star
Balanced ratio of stars to downloads
Unknown
Fewer than 1,000 monthly downloads, or no star data
How download momentum is calculated
Week daily avg
661
Month daily avg
648
Momentum
+2.0%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100Python version support tiers
requires_python
Not specified
Cutting Edge
Minimum supported version is 3.12 or newer
Modern
Minimum supported version is 3.9, 3.10, or 3.11
Legacy
Supports 3.8 or older (or Python 2)
•
Unknown
No requires_python specified or unparseable
Package does not declare a minimum Python version.
License categories
License
Biopython License
Permissive
MIT, Apache, BSD, ISC, Unlicense, CC0, etc.
Copyleft
GPL, LGPL, AGPL, MPL, EPL, etc.
Proprietary
Commercial, all rights reserved, custom EULAs
•
Unknown
No license specified, or none of the above match
How the release cadence was determined
Last release
844 days ago
Total releases
15
Releases/year
1.2
Rapid
Last release within 365 days and > 12 releases/year
Regular
Last release within 365 days
Slow
Last release 366-730 days ago
•
Stalled
Last release > 730 days ago, or no releases
Unknown
No usable release date available
How contributor risk was determined
Contributors
26
Monthly downloads
19,439
High Load
≤ 2 contributors and ≥ 50,000 monthly downloads
Moderate Load
< 10 contributors and ≥ 500,000 monthly downloads
Low Load
< 25 contributors and ≥ 5,000,000 monthly downloads, or sole maintainer with ≥ 10,000 monthly downloads
•
Balanced
Enough contributors for the package's popularity
Unknown
No contributor data available
Engagement
59
Issue Burden
28.0
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
10.7%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
373d
PR Velocity
Quiet
Weekly Downloads
GitHub Stars
Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.
Downloads by OS
Linux
304
Windows
10
macOS
7
Python Versions
3.11
55.2%
153
3.13
17.3%
48
3.10
11.2%
31
3.12
11.2%
31
3.14
5.1%
14
Top Countries
1.
US
242
US
2.
CN
25
CN
3.
SG
19
SG
4.
AU
8
AU
5.
DE
8
DE
6.
IN
8
IN
7.
JP
7
JP
8.
BR
6
BR
9.
KR
3
KR
10.
MY
3
MY
Used By
40
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- nextstrain-augur
- mgnify-pipelines-toolkit
- deciphon-api
- ilund4u
- edgepy
- dbcan
- mutalyzer-retriever
- pgap2
- hugep2g
- annotationcheckerwithstructure
- readtagger
- hicue
- lovis4u
- accusnv
- pharokka
- boltznet
- ship-plasmid
- ensembl-genomio
- genbank-to
- smallgenomeutilities
- methylome-miner
- run-dbcan-new
- local-reassembly
- gff3toddbj
- aqbt
- guessmylt
- bio-util
- yxseq
- gff-to-genbank
- teritori
- wgscovplot
- gogstools
- plantismash
- genebank-file-generater
- gfflu
- gff2mss
- snipgenie
- ssbio-edbr
- yxcompgen
Package Information
License
Biopython License
First Release
May 16, 2013
Last Release
2 years ago
Last Commit
1 year ago
Latest Version
0.7.1
Total Releases
15
Contributors
26
Open PRs
2
Archived
No
Author
Brad Chapman
Wheels
py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
May 17, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh