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scikit-bio

scikit-bio

scikit-bio: a community-driven Python library for bioinformatics, providing versatile data structures, algorithms and educational resources.
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Downloads
Day
4.2K
Week
21.5K
Month
106.4K
Stars
1.2K
Forks
328
Issues
235
Version
0.7.2

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0–100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
90
Popularity
68
Adoption
50
Community
80
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
8 days ago
Monthly downloads
106,401
• 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
106,401
Stars
1,200
Stars per 1k downloads
11.28
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
3,078
Month daily avg
3,547
Momentum
-13.2%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.10
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
83 days ago
Total releases
31
Releases/year
2.6
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
99
Monthly downloads
106,401
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
93
 
Issue Burden
195.8
per 1k stars
Discussions
20.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
30.2%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
75d
 
PR Velocity
Quiet
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

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

Downloads by OS

Linux 1.3K
macOS 176
Windows 36

Python Versions

3.11
42.2% 605
3.12
39.5% 565
3.10
11.0% 157
3.13
4.3% 61
3.9
3.1% 44

Top Countries

1. US US
1.3K
2. SG SG
46
3. CN CN
41
4. JP JP
24
5. DE DE
15
6. AU AU
11
7. IN IN
11
8. KR KR
9
9. NL NL
8
10. BR BR
4

Dependencies

11
37 optional dependencies

Used By

62
View all 62 dependents

Package Information

License
BSD-3-Clause
First Release
May 16, 2014
Last Release
2 months ago
Last Commit
1 week ago
Latest Version
0.7.2
Total Releases
31
Contributors
99
Open PRs
42
Archived
No
Python Versions
3 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13 3.14
Wheels
cp310 cp311 cp312 cp313
Topics
bioinformatics computational-biology
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
May 3, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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