No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
bio has 1.5M monthly downloads and 78 GitHub stars. Version 1.8.3 supports Python <3.15,>=3.10, first published in 2019.
It is stably maintained under a permissive license, last released in May 2026.
It is built on top of biopython, gprofiler-official and mygene. It is used by 96 tracked packages, including bioemu, dark-matter and ugbio-single-cell.
Package Insights
Package Risks
- Moderate bus factor: only 6 contributor(s) for this download volume
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
80
Popularity
38
Adoption
60
Community
20
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
56 days ago
Monthly downloads
1,499,483
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
1,499,483
Stars
78
Stars per 1k downloads
0.05
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
31,104
Month daily avg
49,983
Momentum
-37.8%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100Python version support tiers
requires_python
<3.15,>=3.10
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
License categories
License
MIT
•
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
56 days ago
Total releases
114
Releases/year
15.4
•
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
6
Monthly downloads
1,499,483
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
42
Issue Burden
-
per 1k stars
Discussions
-
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
40.0%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
No
PR Velocity
Quiet
Weekly Downloads
GitHub Stars
Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.
Downloads by OS
Linux
9.7K
Windows
31
macOS
19
Python Versions
3.13
47.9%
4.6K
3.12
18.8%
1.8K
3.10
17.9%
1.7K
3.11
15.2%
1.5K
3.9
0.2%
23
Top Countries
1.
US
9.2K
US
2.
SG
170
SG
3.
IE
169
IE
4.
CN
66
CN
5.
HK
19
HK
6.
JP
16
JP
7.
AU
15
AU
8.
DE
14
DE
9.
NL
12
NL
10.
IN
11
IN
Used By
96
- bioemu
- dark-matter
- ugbio-single-cell
- boldigger3
- apscale-blast
- nanomotif
- xspect
- kinase-library
- bitser
- database-comparator
- relecov-tools
- ecmpy
- levseq
- protein-metamorphisms-is
- apscale-nanopore
- picnic-bio
- taskcraft
- bioomics
- rascore
- dousatsu
- aphylogeo
- protein-information-system
- rwexptest
- egger
- bsxplorer
- gsurgeon
- getphylo
- pybrave
- oncodrive3d
- deeptransyt
- augusta
- chembed
- slranger
- biofile
- altanalyze3
- multiversity
- pyevomotion
- bio-anglerfish
- migenpro
- crispr-bean
- bioinformatics-tools
- insillyclo
- structuremap
- cbtope-2
- conodictor
- biosynth-tool
- biosequtils
- nanogo-basecaller
- climush
- fastq2folder
Package Information
License
MIT
First Release
February 14, 2019
Last Release
1 month ago
Last Commit
1 month ago
Latest Version
1.8.3
Total Releases
114
Contributors
6
Open PRs
0
Archived
No
Python Versions
3.10
3.11
3.12
Wheels
py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh