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needletail
v0.7.1 GrowingFASTX parsing and k-mer methods
MIT Edition 2021
Quick Verdict
- ✓Actively maintained (updated 3d ago)
- !Pre-1.0: API may have breaking changes
- ✓Trusted by 557 crates
- ✓Permissive license (MIT)
Security
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Downloads
447.7K
Dependents
557
Releases
20
Size
417KB
Deep Insights
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Steady growth
12.5K downloads in the last 30 days (417/day), up 6% from the previous period.
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Moderate adoption
557 crates depend on needletail. Reasonable ecosystem adoption, though not yet a core dependency.
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Pre-1.0 for over a year
Despite being 9+ years old, needletail hasn't reached 1.0 yet. Expect potential API changes between versions.
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Used by top crates
Notable dependents include finch, rustybam, sourmash, minimap2, kseq. When high-quality crates choose needletail, it's a strong quality signal.
Health Breakdown
Maintenance 16/25
Recency, release consistency, active ratio
Quality 14/25
Yanked ratio, deps, size, maturity, features
Community 17/20
Reverse deps, ownership, ecosystem
Popularity 7/15
Downloads, momentum, growth trend
Documentation 10/15
Docs, repo, license, metadata
Download Trend
Daily downloads · last 90 days
373/day avg+33%
Top Dependents
Most downloaded crates that depend on needletail
Version Adoption
v0.5.1
51%
v0.4.1
22%
v0.6.3
15%
v0.5.0
6%
v0.6.1
6%
Release Timeline
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Feature Flags
default =["compression"]
xz2pythoncompression*python_test
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Maintainers
Dependencies
18
direct dependencies
Dependents
557
crates depend on needletail