No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
biotite has 7.2M monthly downloads and 962 GitHub stars. Version 1.7.1 supports Python 3.12+, first published in 2017.
It is actively maintained under a permissive license, last released in Jun 2026.
It is built on top of biotraj, msgpack and networkx. It is used by 91 tracked packages, including hydride, fastpdb and esm.
GitHub topics include bioinformatics, computational-biology and structural-biology.
Package Insights
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
100
Popularity
63
Adoption
60
Community
55
Provenance
100
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
3 days ago
Monthly downloads
7,173,525
•
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
7,173,525
Stars
962
Stars per 1k downloads
0.13
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
49,665
Month daily avg
239,118
Momentum
-79.2%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.12
•
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
BSD-3-Clause
•
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
14 days ago
Total releases
66
Releases/year
7.6
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
46
Monthly downloads
7,173,525
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
75
Issue Burden
37.4
per 1k stars
Discussions
16.6
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
33.3%
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
112.9K
macOS
772
Windows
50
Python Versions
3.11
97.0%
110.3K
3.12
2.2%
2.6K
3.13
0.5%
538
3.10
0.3%
325
3.9
0.0%
20
Top Countries
1.
US
84.4K
US
2.
CA
15.4K
CA
3.
AU
8.7K
AU
4.
DE
2.8K
DE
5.
ES
741
ES
6.
GB
624
GB
7.
KR
531
KR
8.
FR
459
FR
9.
SE
245
SE
10.
CN
150
CN
Used By
91
- hydride
- fastpdb
- esm
- atomworks
- pinder
- protenix
- synth-saxs
- diff-biophys
- synth-nmr
- synth-pdb
- rcsb-embedding-model
- boltzgen
- peppr
- tmol
- plinder
- openfold3
- foldmatch
- pxmeter
- modelgenerator
- biosuitestkod
- pdbqc
- beignet
- pocketeer
- protonate-utils
- atomic-datasets
- cryosphere
- molecularnodes
- atomview
- diff-em
- proteinflow
- diff-fret
- trill-proteins
- diff-hdx
- diff-integrator
- dscript
- diff-ensemble
- synth-afm
- torsiontuner
- pycapsid
- antifold
- angular-deviation-diffuser
- mdeepfri
- biobagel
- datasets-bio
- arcadia-apb
- dcatoolkit
- pypef
- ammolite
- lxtractor
- boileroom
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.
Package Information
License
BSD-3-Clause
First Release
November 14, 2017
Last Release
2 weeks ago
Last Commit
4 days ago
Latest Version
1.7.1
Total Releases
66
Contributors
46
Open PRs
9
Archived
No
Author
The Biotite contributors
Python Versions
3
Wheels
cp310
cp311
cp312
cp313
cp314
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh