Decision Workspace
bio-streams vs seqtkrs vs needletail
Side-by-side comparison of Rust crates
36
bio-streams
growingv0.5.0
Streaming bioinformatics data types
45
seqtkrs
experimentalv0.1.1
A Rust reimplementation of seqtk, a fast and lightweight tool for processing biological sequences in FASTA/FASTQ format
64
needletail
growingv0.7.1
FASTX parsing and k-mer methods
Core Metrics
| bio-streams | seqtkrs | needletail | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Health Score | 36 | 45 | 64 |
| Total Downloads | 3.8K | 30 | 447.7K |
| 30d Downloads | 5 | 4 | 12.2K |
| Dependents | 0 | 0 | 557 |
| Releases | 3 | 2 | 20 |
| Last Updated | 552d ago | 59d ago | 3d ago |
| Age | 1y 10m | 1m | 9y |
Health Breakdown
bio-streams
Maintenance
5
Quality
14
Community
3
Popularity
4
Documentation
10
seqtkrs
Maintenance
11
Quality
11
Community
6
Popularity
2
Documentation
15
needletail
Maintenance
16
Quality
14
Community
17
Popularity
7
Documentation
10
Technical Details
| bio-streams | seqtkrs | needletail | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Version | 0.5.0 | 0.1.1 | 0.7.1 |
| Stable (≥1.0) | ✗ No | ✗ No | ✗ No |
| License | MIT | MIT | MIT |
| Dependencies | 6 | 16 | 18 |
| Crate Size | 11KB | 67KB | 417KB |
| Features | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| Yanked % | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| Edition | 2021 | 2021 | 2021 |
| MSRV | — | 1.80 | — |
| Owners | 1 | 1 | 6 |
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Quick Verdict
- •needletail leads with a health score of 64/100, but none of the options score above 80.
- •needletail is depended on by 557 crates — strongest ecosystem trust.
- •⚠ bio-streams has not been updated in over a year.