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sourmash

Quickly search, compare, and analyze genomic and metagenomic data sets.
PyPI GitHub
Downloads
Day
139
Week
1.7K
Month
12.4K
Stars
543
Forks
91
Issues
769
Version
4.9.4

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0–100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
90
Popularity
57
Adoption
40
Community
60
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
8 days ago
Monthly downloads
12,388
• 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
12,388
Stars
543
Stars per 1k downloads
43.83
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
240
Month daily avg
413
Momentum
-41.8%
((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
Not specified
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
Package does not declare a license.
How the release cadence was determined
Last release
272 days ago
Total releases
81
Releases/year
8.2
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
45
Monthly downloads
12,388
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
65
 
Issue Burden
1416.2
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
49.5%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
263d
 
PR Velocity
Active
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

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

Downloads by OS

Linux 65
macOS 4
Windows 2

Python Versions

3.9
37.3% 25
3.13
34.3% 23
3.11
16.4% 11
3.10
6.0% 4
3.12
6.0% 4

Top Countries

1. SG SG
32
2. CN CN
22
3. US US
19
4. AE AE
2
5. DE DE
2
6. CA CA
1
7. LB LB
1
8. ZW ZW
1

Package Information

License
Unknown
First Release
June 7, 2016
Last Release
9 months ago
Last Commit
1 week ago
Latest Version
4.9.4
Total Releases
81
Contributors
45
Open PRs
66
Archived
No
Author
Luiz Irber, N. Tessa Pierce-Ward, Mohamed Abuelanin, Harriet Alexander, Abhishek Anant, Keya Barve, Colton Baumler, Olga Botvinnik, Phillip Brooks, Luca Cappelletti, Peter Cock, Daniel Dsouza, Jade Gardner, Laurent Gautier, Tim Head, Mahmudur Rahman Hera,
Python Versions
3.11 3.12 3.13
Wheels
cp27 cp34 cp35 cp36 py2 py3
Topics
minhash bioinformatics rust python sourmash fracminhash scaled-minhash kmer sketching taxonomic-classification taxonomic-profiling hacktoberfest
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
May 3, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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