Decision Workspace
fastax vs phorge vs phylotree
Side-by-side comparison of Rust crates
42
fastax
growingv1.5.0
Make phylogenetic trees and lineages from the NCBI Taxonomy database
48
phorge
experimentalv0.2.2
A composable CLI toolkit for phylogenetics: NCBI acquisition, homology-based gene extraction, alignment QC, and supermatrix concatenation in one binary.
44
phylotree
growingv0.1.3
A crate to deal with phylogenetic trees and distance matrices
Core Metrics
| fastax | phorge | phylotree | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Health Score | 42 | 48 | 44 |
| Total Downloads | 9.9K | 79 | 10.5K |
| 30d Downloads | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dependents | 0 | 0 | 54 |
| Releases | 7 | 4 | 4 |
| Last Updated | 1212d ago | 14d ago | 579d ago |
| Age | 6y 10m | 17d | 3y 2m |
Health Breakdown
fastax
Maintenance
4
Quality
18
Community
6
Popularity
5
Documentation
9
phorge
Maintenance
18
Quality
12
Community
6
Popularity
2
Documentation
10
phylotree
Maintenance
5
Quality
13
Community
11
Popularity
5
Documentation
10
Technical Details
| fastax | phorge | phylotree | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Version | 1.5.0 | 0.2.2 | 0.1.3 |
| Stable (≥1.0) | ✓ Yes | ✗ No | ✗ No |
| License | MIT | MIT | GPL-3.0 |
| Dependencies | 13 | 15 | 21 |
| Crate Size | 28KB | 59KB | 90KB |
| Features | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Yanked % | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| Edition | 2018 | 2024 | 2021 |
| MSRV | — | — | — |
| Owners | 1 | 1 | 1 |
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Quick Verdict
- •phorge leads with a health score of 48/100, but none of the options score above 80.
- •phylotree has the most downloads (10.5K), suggesting wider adoption.
- •⚠ fastax, phylotree have not been updated in over a year.
- •phorge, phylotree are pre-1.0 — API may change.