ASE-RSIRFO

v0.1.4 suspicious
4.0
Medium Risk

Restricted-Step Image Rational Function Optimisation (RS-I-RFO) as an ASE Optimizer subclass

🤖 AI Analysis

Final verdict: SUSPICIOUS

The package exhibits unusually low activity and has only one contributor, raising concerns about its legitimacy despite showing no immediate signs of malicious intent.

  • Low activity and single contributor
  • No network calls, shell executions, obfuscation, or credential harvesting detected
Per-check LLM notes
  • Network: No network calls detected, which is normal unless the package requires internet access to function.
  • Shell: No shell execution patterns detected, indicating no direct command execution from the package.
  • Obfuscation: No obfuscation patterns detected, indicating low risk.
  • Credentials: No credential harvesting patterns detected, indicating low risk.
  • Metadata: The low activity and single contributor raise suspicion but lack of typosquatting or email domain flags suggest it's not clearly malicious.

🔬 Heuristic Checks

Outbound Network Calls

No suspicious network call patterns found

Code Obfuscation

No obfuscation patterns detected

Shell / Subprocess Execution

No shell execution patterns detected

Credential Harvesting

No credential harvesting patterns detected

Typosquatting

No typosquatting candidates detected

Registered Email Domain

No author email provided

Suspicious Page Links

All external links appear legitimate

Git Repository History score 5.0

Git history flags: Repository has zero stars and zero forks

  • Repository has zero stars and zero forks
  • Single contributor with only 3 commit(s) — possibly throwaway account
Maintainer History score 2.0

1 maintainer concern(s) found

  • Author "ss0832" appears to have only 1 package on PyPI (new or inactive account)
Known CVE Vulnerabilities

No known vulnerabilities found in OSV database.

💡 AI App Starter Prompt

Use this prompt to build a project with ASE-RSIRFO
Create a mini-application that utilizes the 'ASE-RSIRFO' package to optimize molecular structures using the Restricted-Step Image Rational Function Optimization (RS-I-RFO) method. This application will serve as a tool for chemists and materials scientists to explore the potential energy landscapes of molecules and materials, aiming to find their most stable configurations.

Steps to develop this application:
1. Set up a virtual environment and install necessary packages including 'ase', 'ase-rsirfo', and any other dependencies required.
2. Develop a user-friendly interface where users can input molecular structures in various formats such as XYZ, CIF, or POSCAR.
3. Implement functionality to select optimization parameters such as the maximum number of iterations, convergence criteria, and temperature settings for RS-I-RFO.
4. Integrate the RS-I-RFO optimizer from the 'ase-rsirfo' package into your application to perform the actual optimization process on the provided molecular structures.
5. Display the optimized structure, including bond lengths, angles, dihedral angles, and energies at each step of the optimization process.
6. Provide visualizations of the molecular structures before and after optimization using libraries like matplotlib or ase.visualize.
7. Include a feature to save the optimized structure in a specified format, allowing users to export the results for further analysis.

Suggested Features:
- Support for multiple molecular structures in one run, optimizing them sequentially.
- Real-time feedback on the optimization progress, including graphical representations of energy minimization.
- Option to compare different optimization methods available in ASE, showcasing the performance differences between RS-I-RFO and other optimizers.
- Integration with databases to retrieve molecular structures and properties for optimization.

This project aims to demonstrate the practical application of advanced optimization techniques in computational chemistry and materials science, providing a powerful tool for researchers and students alike.