The Australasian dingo archetype: de novo chromosome-length genome assembly, DNA methylome, and cranial morphology is a dataset published in GigaScience (2023). On theSindex it has a DataRank of 0.479, placing it in the top 39.8% of the data-sharing corpus. It has been cited 12 times, with 7 citing works in its 1-hop citation network. Its calibrated FAIR score is 63/100.
Ranks in the top 40% for downstream scientific impact
Linked data & code
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.
“The chromosomal assembly is available at NCBI GenBank under the accession number GCA_012295265.2 (Bioproject: PRJNA613141).”
The paper provides a GenBank accession (GCA_012295265.2), which is a persistent identifier scheme (NCBI accession) for the genome assembly. [majority verdict 'yes' (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'
“The chromosomal assembly is available at NCBI GenBank under the accession number GCA_012295265.2 (Bioproject: PRJNA613141).”
NCBI GenBank is a curated data repository listed in re3data/FAIRsharing.
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 chromosomal assembly is available at NCBI GenBank under the accession number GCA_012295265.2 (Bioproject: PRJNA613141).”
The dataset identifier appears in the body text (Data Availability section) but not as a reference-list entry, meeting the 'partial' class.
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
“The chromosomal assembly is available at NCBI GenBank under the accession number GCA_012295265.2 (Bioproject: PRJNA613141). The mtDNA has been submitted to NCBI GenBank (accession: OP476512). The methylation data are available at Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO), accession Nr GSE212509. The 3-dimensional cranial landmark data are available on Figshare [131]. The raw Dicom data for the MRI of the Alpine dingo and domestic dog brain are also available on Figshare [132]. Assembly files, annotations, BUSCO results, and other supporting data are also available via the GigaScience database GigaDB [133].”— not found in the paper; verdict downgraded
The Data Availability statement points to multiple repository records with accessions or persistent links (Colavizza category 3). [downgraded to 'partial' — no verifiable quote from the paper] [majority verdict 'partial' (4/5 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
“Table 1: Genome assembly and annotation statistics for Alpine dingo (Cooinda) vs. Desert dingo assembly (Sandy)”
The paper includes an itemised table (Table 1) that enumerates assembly statistics, representing an inventory of the dataset. [majority verdict 'yes' (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'
“The chromosomal assembly is available at NCBI GenBank under the accession number GCA_012295265.2 (Bioproject: PRJNA613141).”
The text gives a direct route to the data with no stated precondition (embargo, registration, request, etc.).
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
“The chromosomal assembly is available at NCBI GenBank under the accession number GCA_012295265.2 (Bioproject: PRJNA613141).”
The Data Availability section describes access actions (connection to repositories) but does not label the data with an explicit access-level vocabulary term such as 'open access' or 'publicly available'. [majority verdict 'partial' (4/5 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
“No sentence in the paper predicates a gatekeeper, because the data are not human or sensitive.”— not found in the paper; verdict downgraded
The data are non-human (dingo), so no gatekeeper is required or named.
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 in the paper states when the data become available or how long they will persist. [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'
No file format for the released data is named in the text.
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 data or metadata community standard (e.g., MIAME, ISA-Tab, an ontology) is named in the paper. [majority verdict 'no' (4/5 passes agreed)]
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'
“CanFam v3.1 reference genome downloaded from Ensembl (GCF_000002285.3)”— not found in the paper; verdict downgraded
The paper provides an accession (GCF_000002285.3) for the CanFam reference genome, an external resource. [downgraded to 'no' — no verifiable quote from the paper] [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 reuse licence for the data is stated; the CC-BY 4.0 footer applies to the article, not the data.
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'
“GCA_012295265.2”
The GenBank accession includes a version suffix (.2), which is a version token. [majority verdict 'yes' (4/5 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'
No code repository or archive DOI is provided for the study's own code; only third-party tools are mentioned.
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)
“DP150102038”
The paper includes an Australian Research Council award number (DP150102038) under Funding.
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
“Briefly, 1,722 contigs were assembled from Pacific Biosciences (PacBio) CLR and Oxford Nanopore (ONT) PromethION sequence data with a total length of 2.38 Gb and N50 length of 12.4 Mb [31].”— not found in the paper; verdict downgraded
The paper names specific instruments (PacBio CLR, ONT PromethION) and software (Canu, Arrow, etc.) 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
“Supplementary Table S4. List and description of cranial landmarks used in this study.”
The variable definitions (cranial landmarks) are given inside the article as a supplementary table, not as a separate file shipped with the data. [majority verdict 'partial' (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
0.385
From this paper's citation signal
Citation Network Contribution
0.0943
From 4 citing papers with measurable signal
Ranked by each citer's contribution to N(p) — log1p(Cq) divided by its reference count — out of 7 citers.
Australian Research Council
Grant: DP150102038
Australian Research Council
Grant: FT200100822
National Health and Medical Research Council
Grant: APP5121190
Welch Foundation
Grant: Q-1866
National Institutes of Health
Grant: UM1HG009375
NHGRI NIH HHS
Grant: RM1 HG011016
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