No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
mdanalysis has 229K monthly downloads and 2K GitHub stars. Version 2.10.0 supports Python 3.11+, first published in 2012.
It is actively maintained under a copyleft license, last released in Oct 2025.
It is built on top of filelock, griddataformats and joblib. It is used by 207 tracked packages, including prolif, mdanalysistests and mdahole2.
GitHub topics include molecular-dynamics, science and trajectory-analysis.
Package Insights
Package Risks
- No releases in 248 days despite active commits
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
90
Popularity
74
Adoption
63
Community
100
Provenance
100
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
13 days ago
Monthly downloads
228,983
•
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
228,983
Stars
1,607
Stars per 1k downloads
7.02
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
7,124
Month daily avg
7,633
Momentum
-6.7%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.11
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
GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0
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
262 days ago
Total releases
47
Releases/year
3.4
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
241
Monthly downloads
228,983
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
100
Issue Burden
271.3
per 1k stars
Discussions
202.9
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
28.5%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
248d
PR Velocity
Quiet
Weekly Downloads
GitHub Stars
Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.
Downloads by OS
Linux
3.1K
macOS
820
Windows
164
Python Versions
3.11
55.3%
2.2K
3.12
27.8%
1.1K
3.13
10.7%
434
3.10
4.8%
195
3.14
1.5%
60
Top Countries
1.
US
3.2K
US
2.
BE
254
BE
3.
SG
202
SG
4.
IE
156
IE
5.
CN
118
CN
6.
GB
93
GB
7.
NL
71
NL
8.
HK
53
HK
9.
KR
49
KR
10.
IN
41
IN
Dependencies
11
- filelock
- griddataformats >=0.4.0
- joblib >=0.12
- matplotlib >=1.5.1
- mda-xdrlib
- mmtf-python >=1.0.0
- numpy >=1.26.0
- packaging
- scipy >=1.5.0
- threadpoolctl
- tqdm >=4.43.0
24 optional dependencies
- biopython[analysis]
- chemfiles[extra-formats]
- dask[parallel]
- gsd[extra-formats]
- h5py[extra-formats]
- imdclient[extra-formats]
- mdahole2[analysis]
- mdanalysis-sphinx-theme[doc]
- netcdf4[extra-formats]
- networkx[analysis]
- parmed[extra-formats]
- pathsimanalysis[analysis]
- pybtex[doc]
- pybtex-docutils[doc]
- pyedr[extra-formats]
- pytng[extra-formats]
- rdkit[extra-formats]
- scikit-learn[analysis]
- seaborn[analysis]
- sphinx[doc]
- sphinx-sitemap[doc]
- sphinxcontrib-bibtex[doc]
- tidynamics[analysis]
- waterdynamics[analysis]
Used By
207
- prolif
- mdanalysistests
- mdahole2
- waterdynamics
- pathsimanalysis
- nomad-schema-plugin-simulation-workflow
- ai2-kit
- nomad-parser-plugins-atomistic
- megane
- stko
- jscatter
- macchiato
- volgrids
- mdsasa-bolt
- gatewizard
- bfee2
- mdacli
- biosim-extractor
- sqq
- edms
- lipyphilic
- maicos
- molecular-simulations
- mdkits
- waterentropy
- mokda-xponge
- codeentropy
- bentopy
- mdadash
- gemdat
- fairmd-lipids
- dynetan
- mdanse
- solvation-analysis
- molecularnodes
- pytim
- ml-peg
- atompacker
- curdf
- membrane-curvature
- materials-data-analytics
- radicalpy
- trill-proteins
- chilife
- condensimadapter
- ligandparam
- entdetect
- bfflearn
- mdaencore
- shapegmmtorch
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.
Package Information
License
GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0
First Release
July 4, 2012
Last Release
8 months ago
Last Commit
2 weeks ago
Latest Version
2.10.0
Total Releases
47
Contributors
241
Open PRs
89
Archived
No
Python Versions
3.11
3.12
3.13
3.14
Wheels
cp310
cp311
cp312
cp313
cp314
cp38
cp39
Keywords
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh