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mdanalysis

mdanalysis

MDAnalysis is a Python library to analyze molecular dynamics simulations.
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Shared Repository

This package shares its GitHub repository (mdanalysis/mdanalysis) with 1 other package. Stars, forks, and other GitHub metrics reflect the entire repository.
Downloads
Day
12.3K
Week
69.2K
Month
692.1K
Stars
1.6K
Forks
830
Issues
431
Version
2.10.0

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0–100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
90
Popularity
73
Adoption
58
Community
100
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
10 days ago
Monthly downloads
692,101
• 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
692,101
Stars
1,576
Stars per 1k downloads
2.28
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
9,890
Month daily avg
23,070
Momentum
-57.1%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python 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
200 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
692,101
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
273.5
per 1k stars
Discussions
206.9
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
29.0%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
190d
 
PR Velocity
Quiet
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.

Downloads by OS

Linux 4.3K
macOS 248
Windows 121

Python Versions

3.12
47.3% 2.2K
3.11
40.7% 1.9K
3.10
5.8% 266
3.13
4.8% 223
3.9
1.4% 64

Top Countries

1. US US
3.9K
2. SG SG
186
3. CN CN
173
4. AU AU
127
5. BE BE
85
6. NL NL
81
7. GB GB
46
8. JP JP
46
9. IN IN
39
10. IE IE
35

Dependencies

11
24 optional dependencies

Used By

192
View all 192 dependents

Package Information

License
GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0
First Release
July 4, 2012
Last Release
6 months ago
Last Commit
1 week ago
Latest Version
2.10.0
Total Releases
47
Contributors
241
Open PRs
82
Archived
No
Python Versions
3.11 3.12 3.13 3.14
Wheels
cp310 cp311 cp312 cp313 cp314 cp38 cp39
Keywords
python science chemistry biophysics molecular-dynamics computational-chemistry molecular-simulation analysis trajectory-analysis
Topics
molecular-dynamics python science trajectory-analysis molecular-simulation molecular-dynamics-simulation mdanalysis computational-chemistry
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
May 3, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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