recountmethylation enables flexible analysis of public blood DNA methylation array data is a dataset published in Bioinformatics Advances (2023). On theSindex it has a DataRank of 0.348, placing it in the top 50.5% of the data-sharing corpus. It has been cited 6 times, with 6 citing works in its 1-hop citation network. Its calibrated FAIR score is 63/100.
Ranks in the top 51% for downstream scientific impact
DataRank reads this dataset's downstream impact straight off the citation graph — no black box, no proprietary weighting. How is this computed?
FAIR checklist signals are shown for context only and do not affect DataRank scoring.
Full FAIR picture · advisory
The headline score is computed from the scored criteria — the fact-shaped checks (a repository, an accession, a licence) that two independent models agree on. The advisory criteria below are real FAIR guidance but rest on judgment calls that models read differently, so they inform without moving the number.
“Compilations of the analyzed public data can be accessed from the website recount.bio/data (preprocessed HM450K array data: https://recount.bio/data/remethdb_h5se-gm_epic_0-0-2_1589820348/ ; preprocessed EPIC array data: https://recount.bio/data/remethdb_h5se-gm_epic_0-0-2_1589820348/ ).”
The dataset is identified by a web URL, not by a persistent identifier from the accepted schemes. [majority verdict 'partial' (4/5 passes agreed)]
RDA-F1-01D — FAIR Data Maturity Model: 'Data is identified by a persistent identifier' (priorit · RDA-F1-02D — FAIR Data Maturity Model: 'Data is identified by a globally unique identifier' · FsF-F1-02D — F-UJI/FAIRsFAIR: 'Data is assigned a persistent identifier'
“Compilations of the analyzed public data can be accessed from the website recount.bio/data”
The holder of the study's own data is a website (recount.bio), not a curated repository like GEO or Bioconductor (which hosts the package, not the data compilations).
RDA-F4-01M — FAIR Data Maturity Model: metadata is offered so it can be harvested and indexed ( · NIH DMS Policy Element 4 (NOT-OD-21-014) — name the repository where data will be archived · NSTC Desirable Characteristics of Data Repositories (2022) — 'Long-Term Sustainability', 'Reten
“The updated recountmethylation Bioconductor package is now available ( https://doi.org/doi:10.18129/B9.bioc.recountmethylation ).”
The dataset's DOI appears in the body text (section 4.10) but not as a reference-list entry. [majority verdict 'partial' (4/5 passes agreed)]
FORCE11 Joint Declaration of Data Citation Principles (2014) — data should be cited as a first- · RDA-F3-01M — metadata clearly and explicitly includes the identifier of the data it describes · FsF-F3-01M — F-UJI: 'Metadata includes the identifier of the data it describes'
Advisory · not in the published score
“Data used in this study were publicly available and downloaded from the Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO) repository at National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) website ( https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/geo ). Compilations of the analyzed public data can be accessed from the website recount.bio/data (preprocessed HM450K array data: https://recount.bio/data/remethdb_h5se-gm_epic_0-0-2_1589820348/ ; preprocessed EPIC array data: https://recount.bio/data/remethdb_h5se-gm_epic_0-0-2_1589820348/ ).”
The statement points to a website URL, not a repository record with a persistent identifier. [majority verdict 'partial' (3/5 passes agreed)]
Colavizza, Hrynaszkiewicz, Staden, Whitaker & McGillivray (2020), 'The citation advantage of li · Springer Nature research data policy — Data Availability Statements: standard statement templat · RDA-F3-01M — metadata clearly and explicitly includes the identifier of the data it describes
“We uniformly processed raw intensity data generated on the HM450K or EPIC platforms for 68 758 samples available on GEO before March 31, 2021 ( Fig. 1 , Section 4) ( Aryee et al. , 2014 ; Triche et al. , 2013 ). We narrowed focus to 12 537 normal human blood samples from 63 studies, each of which had ≥ 10 samples after quality control.”
The dataset's content is described in running prose (sample counts, platforms, types) but not as an itemised inventory with a section heading or table. [majority verdict 'partial' (4/5 passes agreed)]
RDA-F2-01M — 'Rich metadata is provided to allow discovery' (priority Essential) · FsF-F2-01M — F-UJI: 'Metadata includes descriptive core elements to support data findability' · FsF-R1-01MD — F-UJI: 'Metadata specifies the content of the data'
“Compilations of the analyzed public data can be accessed from the website recount.bio/data (preprocessed HM450K array data: https://recount.bio/data/remethdb_h5se-gm_epic_0-0-2_1589820348/ ; preprocessed EPIC array data: https://recount.bio/data/remethdb_h5se-gm_epic_0-0-2_1589820348/ ).”
The text gives a direct download URL with no stated precondition, indicating unconditional availability. [majority verdict 'yes' (4/5 passes agreed)]
RDA-A1.1-01D — 'Data is accessible through a free access protocol' · FsF-A1-01M — F-UJI: 'Metadata contains access level and access conditions of the data' · NSTC Desirable Characteristics of Data Repositories (2022) — 'Free and Easy Access'
Advisory · not in the published score
No access-level label is applied to the data; the text only states that compilations can be accessed. [majority verdict 'no' (2/5 passes agreed)]
FsF-A1-01M — F-UJI: 'Metadata contains access level and access conditions of the data' · RDA-A1-01M — metadata contains information to enable the user to get access to the data · COAR Controlled Vocabularies — Access Rights v1.0 (open / embargoed / restricted / metadata-onl
The data are human-subject but publicly available; no gatekeeper is named, and no controlled-access procedure is described.
NIH Genomic Data Sharing Policy (NOT-OD-14-124) — controlled-access via a Data Access Committee · RDA-A1.2-01D — 'Data is accessible through an access protocol that supports authentication and · NIH DMS Policy Element 5 (NOT-OD-21-014) — Access, Distribution, or Reuse Considerations (conse
No sentence states how long the data will remain available or makes any persistence commitment. [majority verdict 'no' (4/5 passes agreed)]
NIH DMS Plan Element 4 (NOT-OD-21-014) — Data Preservation, Access, and Associated Timelines · NSTC Desirable Characteristics (2022), Organizational Infrastructure: 'Retention Policy' · RDA-A2-01M — 'Metadata is guaranteed to remain available after data is no longer available'
“Compilations were stored as Hierarchical Data Format 5 (HDF5)-based SummarizedExperiment files”
HDF5 is an open, community-standard format. [majority verdict 'yes' (4/5 passes agreed)]
FsF-R1.3-02D — F-UJI: 'Data is available in a file format recommended by the target research co · RDA-R1.3-02D — data is expressed in a machine-understandable community standard · RDA-I1-01D — data uses a knowledge representation expressed in a standardised format
Advisory · not in the published score
No named community standard (e.g., MIAME, MINSEQE, or a specific ontology) is applied to the data; only generic terms like 'controlled vocabularies' are used.
RDA-R1.3-01M — 'Metadata complies with a community standard' (priority Essential) · RDA-R1.3-01D — 'Data complies with a community standard' · RDA-I2-01M — '(Meta)data use vocabularies that follow FAIR principles'
No identifier for a non-own resource (e.g., a specific GEO accession, reference genome build) is provided; only a bare URL to GEO is given. [majority verdict 'no' (3/5 passes agreed)]
RDA-I3-01M — '(meta)data include references to other (meta)data' · RDA-I3-03M — 'metadata includes qualified references to other metadata' · FsF-I3-01M — F-UJI: 'Metadata includes links between the data and its related entities'
No license for the data is mentioned; the CC-BY license applies only to the article.
RDA-R1.1-01M — 'Metadata includes information about the licence under which the data can be reu · RDA-R1.1-02M — 'Metadata refers to a standard reuse licence' · RDA-R1.1-03M — 'Metadata refers to a machine-understandable reuse licence'
“remethdb_h5se-gm_epic_0-0-2_1589820348”
The data compilation URL includes a version token (0-0-2) and a timestamp, identifying the snapshot. [majority verdict 'yes' (3/5 passes agreed)]
DataCite Metadata Schema 4.6 — the 'Version' property · RDA-R1.2-01M — provenance information (which version was used is provenance) · NSTC Desirable Characteristics of Data Repositories (2022) — 'Provenance', 'Retention Policy'
“Source code to reproduce the main results are available on GitHub (repo: recountmethylation_flexible-blood-analysis_manuscript; url: https://github.com/metamaden/recountmethylation_flexible-blood-analysis_manuscript ).”
A machine-resolvable GitHub URL is provided for the study's own code. [majority verdict 'yes' (4/5 passes agreed)]
NIH DMS Policy Element 2 (NOT-OD-21-014) — 'Related Tools, Software and/or Code' · FAIR4RS Principles v1.0 (Chue Hong et al., 2022; RDA/FORCE11/ReSA) — FAIR Principles for Resear · FORCE11 Software Citation Principles (Smith, Katz & Niemeyer, 2016, PeerJ CS 2:e86)
“This work was supported by the National Institutes of Health [5R01GM121459-02 to K.D.H.].”
An award number (5R01GM121459-02) is given with the funder name. [majority verdict 'yes' (4/5 passes agreed)]
DataCite Metadata Schema 4.6 — 'FundingReference' property (funderName, funderIdentifier, award · Crossref Funder Registry — canonical funder identifiers for funding metadata · RDA-F2-01M — rich metadata provided to allow discovery (funding is part of the descriptive reco
Advisory · not in the published score
“recountmethylation_instance v0.0.1 (Maden et al., 2022) Snakemake workflow”— not found in the paper; verdict downgraded
The text names specific software versions used to produce the data. [downgraded to 'partial' — no verifiable quote from the paper] [majority verdict 'partial' (3/5 passes agreed)]
RDA-R1.2-01M — 'Metadata includes provenance information according to community- specific standa · FsF-R1.2-01M — F-UJI: 'Metadata includes provenance information about data creation or generati · W3C PROV-O (W3C Recommendation, 2013) — the entity/activity/agent model of provenance
The paper does not state that a README, data dictionary, or codebook accompanies the data compilations; only package vignettes are mentioned, which are for the software. [majority verdict 'no' (4/5 passes agreed)]
RDA-R1-01M — '(Meta)data are richly described with a plurality of accurate and relevant attribu · FsF-R1-01MD — F-UJI: 'Metadata specifies the content of the data' · NIH DMS Policy Element 3 (NOT-OD-21-014) — Standards (documentation and metadata to accompany t
Calibrated FAIR score — a parallel quality metric, independent of the DataRank citation score. See the full evaluation →
Base Score Contribution
0.292
From this paper's citation signal
Citation Network Contribution
0.0563
From 3 citing papers with measurable signal
Ranked by each citer's contribution to N(p) — log1p(Cq) divided by its reference count — out of 6 citers.
National Institutes of Health
Grant: 5R01GM121459-02
Analysis of genomics datasets at a massive scale
NIGMS NIH HHS
Grant: R01 GM121459
FWCI
0.81
Citation Percentile
0.7%
Citation Trend
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