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bigtools

v0.5.6 Growing

A library and associated tools for reading and writing bigwigs and bigbeds

MIT Edition 2021
#bio#bigwig

Quick Verdict

  • โœ•Not updated for 1+ year
  • !Pre-1.0: API may have breaking changes
  • โœ“Trusted by 107 crates
  • !Heavy dependency tree (21 direct deps)
  • โœ“Permissive license (MIT)

Security

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Downloads
100.0K
Dependents
107
Releases
30
Size
9.4MB

Deep Insights

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Strong growth momentum

4.1K downloads in the last 30 days (138/day), up 62% from the previous period.

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Moderate adoption

107 crates depend on bigtools. Reasonable ecosystem adoption, though not yet a core dependency.

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Pre-1.0 for over a year

Despite being 6+ years old, bigtools hasn't reached 1.0 yet. Expect potential API changes between versions.

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Heavy dependency tree

21 direct dependencies. Consider the impact on compile times and supply chain complexity.

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Large crate size

9.4MB is relatively large. May impact download and compile times.

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Used by top crates

Notable dependents include exon-bigwig, bamcalib, oxbow, bigwig2bam, crib. When high-quality crates choose bigtools, it's a strong quality signal.

Health Breakdown

Maintenance 7/25

Recency, release consistency, active ratio

Quality 11/25

Yanked ratio, deps, size, maturity, features

Community 8/20

Reverse deps, ownership, ecosystem

Popularity 6/15

Downloads, momentum, growth trend

Documentation 13/15

Docs, repo, license, metadata

Download Trend

Daily downloads ยท last 90 days
105/day avg+55%
01002003004002/263/164/34/215/95/26

Top Dependents

Version Adoption

v0.5.6
54%
v0.5.4
18%
v0.4.3
10%
v0.4.2
10%
v0.5.1
9%

Release Timeline

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Feature Flags

default =["remote", "read", "write", "cli"]

cli*read*write*remote*

README

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Maintainers

Dependencies
21
direct dependencies
Dependents
107
crates depend on bigtools

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