Decision Workspace
seal vs cyanea-align vs kira-ls-aligner
Side-by-side comparison of Rust crates
42
seal
growingv0.1.6
Implementation of Needleman-Wunsch & Smith-Waterman sequence alignment.
45
cyanea-align
experimentalv0.1.0
Sequence alignment algorithms for the Cyanea bioinformatics ecosystem
44
kira-ls-aligner
experimentalv0.1.1
Unified short- and long-read sequence aligner written in Rust 2024. It combines minimap2-style minimizers and chaining with BWA-MEM2-style exact-match anchoring and output semantics. The goal is drop-in compatibility with bwa-mem pipelines while supporting long reads efficiently.
Core Metrics
| seal | cyanea-align | kira-ls-aligner | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Health Score | 42 | 45 | 44 |
| Total Downloads | 23.7K | 17 | 29 |
| 30d Downloads | 145 | 4 | 4 |
| Dependents | 37 | 0 | 0 |
| Releases | 7 | 1 | 2 |
| Last Updated | 275d ago | 35d ago | 38d ago |
| Age | 8y 11m | 1m | 2m |
Health Breakdown
seal
Maintenance
5
Quality
9
Community
10
Popularity
5
Documentation
13
cyanea-align
Maintenance
11
Quality
15
Community
6
Popularity
1
Documentation
12
kira-ls-aligner
Maintenance
12
Quality
12
Community
6
Popularity
2
Documentation
12
Technical Details
| seal | cyanea-align | kira-ls-aligner | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Version | 0.1.6 | 0.1.0 | 0.1.1 |
| Stable (≥1.0) | ✗ No | ✗ No | ✗ No |
| License | MPL-2.0 | MIT OR Apache-2.0 | MIT |
| Dependencies | 4 | 7 | 10 |
| Crate Size | 14KB | 106KB | 1.4MB |
| Features | 0 | 9 | 2 |
| Yanked % | 28.6% | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| Edition | 2021 | 2021 | 2024 |
| MSRV | — | 1.93 | 1.95 |
| Owners | 1 | 1 | 1 |
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Quick Verdict
- •cyanea-align leads with a health score of 45/100, but none of the options score above 80.
- •seal has the most downloads (23.7K), suggesting wider adoption.