The microbiome of the buffalo digestive tract
The microbiome of the buffalo digestive tract is a dataset published in Nature Communications (2022). On theSindex it has a DataRank of 2.2, placing it in the top 34.7% of the data-sharing corpus. It has been cited 101 times, with 86 citing works in its 1-hop citation network. Its calibrated FAIR score is 50/100.
Abstract
Buffalo is an important livestock species. Here, we present a comprehensive metagenomic survey of the microbial communities along the buffalo digestive tract. We analysed 695 samples covering eight different sites in three compartments (four-chambered stomach, intestine, and rectum). We mapped ~85% of the raw sequence reads to 4,960 strain-level metagenome-assembled genomes (MAGs) and 3,255 species-level MAGs, 90% of which appear to correspond to new species. In addition, we annotated over 5.8 million nonredundant proteins from the MAGs. In comparison with the rumen microbiome of cattle, the buffalo microbiota seems to present greater potential for fibre degradation and less potential for methane production. Our catalogue of microbial genomes and the encoded proteins provides insights into microbial functions and interactions at distinct sites along the buffalo digestive tract.
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FAIR Checklist
Context only (not used in score)- Has DOI
- Open Access
- Dataset classification
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Calibrated FAIR score — a parallel quality metric, independent of the DataRank citation score. See the full evaluation →
DataRank Breakdown
Base Score Contribution
0.675
From this paper's citation signal
Citation Network Contribution
1.5
From 59 citing papers with measurable signal
Top 5 citers driving the network score
Ranked by citation count — the same ordering the engine uses when summing log1p(Cq) over citers.
- The Sequence Alignment/Map format and SAMtoolsBioinformatics200966,179 citationsDataRank 1.7
- Fast gapped-read alignment with Bowtie 2Nature Methods201259,681 citationsDataRank 1.6
- BEDTools: a flexible suite of utilities for comparing genomic featuresBioinformatics201030,023 citationsDataRank 1.5
- Metagenomic biomarker discovery and explanationGenome Biology201116,383 citationsDataRank 1.5
- Prodigal: prokaryotic gene recognition and translation initiation site identificationBMC Bioinformatics201012,778 citationsDataRank 1.4
Why this DataRank?
DataRank blends this paper's own citation count with the influence of the papers that cite it. Here, roughly 30% comes from its base citations and 70% from the citation network (59 citing papers contributed measurable signal).
- Base score B(p)
- log1p(citation_count) — grows sub-linearly, so a paper with 1,000 citations is not 10× a paper with 100.
- Network N(p)
- Σ over citers of log1p(Cq) ÷ max(outdegreeq, 1). Being cited by a highly-cited paper with few references counts most.
- Damping factor d = 0.85
- DataRank = (1−d)·B(p) + d·N(p) — the two cards above are each already multiplied by their share.
- Self-citations excluded
- Citers sharing any OpenAlex author ID with this paper are filtered out before the network sum.
Citers are pulled from OpenAlex sorted by cited_by_count:descand capped per paper, so when the cap binds we keep the highest-signal references and the score is reproducible across reruns.
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