Decision Workspace
needletail vs cyanea-seq vs minimap2
Side-by-side comparison of Rust crates
64
needletail
growingv0.7.1
FASTX parsing and k-mer methods
44
cyanea-seq
experimentalv0.1.0
Sequence I/O and manipulation for the Cyanea bioinformatics ecosystem
57
minimap2
growingv0.1.31+minimap2.2.30
Bindings to libminimap2
Core Metrics
| needletail | cyanea-seq | minimap2 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Health Score | 64 | 44 | 57 |
| Total Downloads | 447.7K | 16 | 37.0K |
| 30d Downloads | 11.7K | 3 | 712 |
| Dependents | 557 | 0 | 117 |
| Releases | 20 | 1 | 26 |
| Last Updated | 3d ago | 35d ago | 33d ago |
| Age | 9y | 1m | 3y 5m |
Health Breakdown
needletail
Maintenance
16
Quality
14
Community
17
Popularity
7
Documentation
10
cyanea-seq
Maintenance
11
Quality
15
Community
5
Popularity
1
Documentation
12
minimap2
Maintenance
18
Quality
13
Community
11
Popularity
5
Documentation
10
Technical Details
| needletail | cyanea-seq | minimap2 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Version | 0.7.1 | 0.1.0 | 0.1.31+minimap2.2.30 |
| Stable (≥1.0) | ✗ No | ✗ No | ✗ No |
| License | MIT | MIT OR Apache-2.0 | MIT OR Apache-2.0 |
| Dependencies | 18 | 6 | 8 |
| Crate Size | 417KB | 128KB | 56KB |
| Features | 5 | 5 | 8 |
| Yanked % | 0.0% | 0.0% | 7.7% |
| Edition | 2021 | 2021 | 2024 |
| MSRV | — | 1.93 | — |
| Owners | 6 | 1 | 1 |
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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.