No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
pyhmmer has 3.9M monthly downloads and 165 GitHub stars. Version 0.12.1 supports Python 3.7+, first published in 2020.
It is stably maintained under a permissive license, last released in May 2026.
It is built on top of psutil. It is used by 56 tracked packages, including splicecraft, grap-models and sadie-antibody.
GitHub topics include hmmer, hmmer3 and bioinformatics.
Package Insights
Package Risks
- Moderate bus factor: only 9 contributor(s) for this download volume
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
80
Popularity
43
Adoption
60
Community
20
Provenance
100
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
40 days ago
Monthly downloads
3,929,305
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
3,929,305
Stars
165
Stars per 1k downloads
0.04
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
29,230
Month daily avg
130,977
Momentum
-77.7%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.7
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 AND BSD-3-Clause AND BSD-2-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
55 days ago
Total releases
78
Releases/year
13.8
•
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
9
Monthly downloads
3,929,305
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
27
Issue Burden
97.0
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
52.9%
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
66.9K
macOS
14
Windows
13
Python Versions
3.11
99.5%
66.5K
3.12
0.3%
201
3.13
0.1%
86
3.10
0.1%
57
3.14
0.0%
6
Top Countries
1.
US
48.9K
US
2.
CA
7.7K
CA
3.
AU
6.0K
AU
4.
DE
2.4K
DE
5.
GB
469
GB
6.
KR
457
KR
7.
FR
412
FR
8.
ES
296
ES
9.
SE
237
SE
10.
ID
40
ID
Dependencies
1
- psutil <8.0,>=5.0
1 optional dependencies
- importlib-resources[test]
Used By
56
- splicecraft
- grap-models
- sadie-antibody
- fdog
- bakta
- mdmparis-defense-finder
- buscolite
- dbcan
- funannotate2
- anarci-mhc
- retromol
- rolypoly-tk
- fetchmgs
- checkamg
- pybarrnap
- isotools
- bigecyhmm
- pynteny
- gecco
- ilund4u
- symclatron
- pharokka
- checku
- biocracker
- lovis4u
- phu
- rdrpcatch
- pyinfernal
- mgexpose
- lxtractor
- metacerberus
- tirmite
- chamois-tool
- vamb
- cayman
- pcalf
- orfmatch
- pyitsx
- astrogenomics-sgtree
- stcrpy
- bigslice
- conodictor
- run-dbcan-new
- viralquest
- pyhmmsearch
- pykofamsearch
- pytransaln
- hkgfinder
- tatouscan
- fastaai-release
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.
Package Information
License
MIT AND BSD-3-Clause AND BSD-2-Clause
First Release
November 10, 2020
Last Release
1 month ago
Last Commit
1 month ago
Latest Version
0.12.1
Total Releases
78
Contributors
9
Open PRs
0
Archived
No
Python Versions
3.7
3.8
3.9
3.10
3.11
3.12
3.13
3.14
Wheels
cp310
cp311
cp312
Keywords
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh