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helicalAI

helical

A framework for state-of-the-art pre-trained bio foundation models on genomics and transcriptomics modalities.
PyPI GitHub
Downloads
Day
97
Week
457
Month
6.5K
Stars
211
Forks
37
Issues
3
Version
2.0.2

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0–100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
90
Popularity
48
Adoption
38
Community
50
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
8 days ago
Monthly downloads
6,526
• 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
6,526
Stars
211
Stars per 1k downloads
32.33
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
65
Month daily avg
218
Momentum
-70.0%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python version support tiers
requires_python
<3.13,>=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 Affero 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
8 days ago
Total releases
70
Releases/year
39.6
• 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
23
Monthly downloads
6,526
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
52
 
Issue Burden
14.2
per 1k stars
Discussions
9.5
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
62.2%
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 3

Python Versions

3.10
66.7% 2
3.12
33.3% 1

Top Countries

1. US US
11
2. GB GB
3
3. KR KR
2
4. CA CA
1

Dependencies

22
4 optional dependencies

Used By

0
Not used by any tracked packages

Package Information

License
GNU Affero General Public License v3.0
First Release
July 29, 2024
Last Release
1 week ago
Last Commit
1 week ago
Latest Version
2.0.2
Total Releases
70
Contributors
23
Open PRs
1
Archived
No
Python Versions
3
Wheels
py3
Topics
artificial-intelligence bioinformatics biology deep-learning dna-sequences foundation-models gene-expression pre-trained-model pre-training rna-seq rnaseq transformer vcf scgpt uce geneformer evo2 transcriptformer helixmrna rna
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
May 3, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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