A Reference Genome Assembly of American Bison,Bison bison bison is a dataset published in Journal of Heredity (2021). On theSindex it has a DataRank of 1.2, placing it in the top 17.5% of the data-sharing corpus. It has been cited 51 times, with 26 citing works in its 1-hop citation network. Its calibrated FAIR score is 71/100.
Ranks in the top 17% 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.
“Data generated in this study are available in the NCBI BioProject repository under accessions PRJNA677946 (bison) and PRJNA677947 (Simmental).”
The paper provides NCBI BioProject accessions (PRJNA677946, PRJNA677947), which are persistent identifiers in the accepted scheme list.
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'
“Data generated in this study are available in the NCBI BioProject repository”
NCBI BioProject is a named data repository (class 1).
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
“Data generated in this study are available in the NCBI BioProject repository under accessions PRJNA677946 (bison) and PRJNA677947 (Simmental).”
The dataset identifier appears only in the body text (data availability statement), not in the reference list.
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 generated in this study are available in the NCBI BioProject repository under accessions PRJNA677946 (bison) and PRJNA677947 (Simmental).”
The statement points to a repository record with accessions (Colavizza category 3).
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 2. Assembly statistics for final assembly, ARS-UCSC_bison1.0, and current bison reference, Bison_UMD1.0”
The paper includes a table that itemises the dataset's composition (size, contig N50, scaffold count, etc.). [majority verdict 'yes' (3/5 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'
“Data generated in this study are available in the NCBI BioProject repository under accessions PRJNA677946 (bison) and PRJNA677947 (Simmental).”
The data are stated to be available in a public repository with no precondition.
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
“Data generated in this study are available in the NCBI BioProject repository under accessions PRJNA677946 (bison) and PRJNA677947 (Simmental).”
No explicit access-level label is given; the text describes an action (going to NCBI) from which open access can be inferred.
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 not identified as sensitive or human-subject, and no gatekeeper is 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
“Data generated in this study are available in the NCBI BioProject repository under accessions PRJNA677946 (bison) and PRJNA677947 (Simmental).”
The text states that the data are available now but says nothing about how long they will persist. [majority verdict 'partial' (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 is named for the deposited data in the data availability statement or elsewhere. [majority verdict 'no' (2/5 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 community data or metadata standard (e.g., MIAME, BIDS, a FAIRsharing-registered ontology) is named for the data.
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'
“SAMN16823422”
The paper provides identifiers (BioSample, SRA accessions) for the parent samples and other resources not produced by this study. [majority verdict 'yes' (4/5 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 license is stated for the data; the CC-BY license applies to the article only.
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'
“ARS-UCSC_bison1.0”
The assembly is identified by a version token (ARS-UCSC_bison1.0) in the abstract and methods.
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'
“https://github.com/njdbickhart/Themis-ASM”
A GitHub URL is provided for custom scripts, which is a machine-resolvable locator.
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)
“T32 HG008345-01”
An award/grant number (T32 HG008345-01) is given for a funder, along with other grant numbers.
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
“Illumina NextSeq500 instrument”
The text names specific instruments and software used to produce the data (e.g., Illumina NextSeq500, Oxford Nanopore PromethION). [majority verdict 'yes' (4/5 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
No documentation object (README, data dictionary, codebook) is mentioned as accompanying the deposited data.
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
0.593
From this paper's citation signal
Citation Network Contribution
0.582
From 19 citing papers with measurable signal
Ranked by each citer's contribution to N(p) — log1p(Cq) divided by its reference count — out of 26 citers.
National Institutes of Health
Grant: T32 HG008345-01
National Science Foundation
Grant: DEB-1754451
ARS-appropriated projects
Grant: 3040-31000-100-00D
ARS-appropriated projects
Grant: 5438-32000-034-00D
Nebraska Beef Industry Endowment
Grant: 2662390323001
NHGRI NIH HHS
Grant: T32 HG008345
National Science Foundation
Grant: 1754451
Collaborative Research: Inferring admixture history in non-model organisms using local ancestry detection
National Institutes of Health
Grant: 1T32HG008345-01
UC Santa Cruz Training Program In Genomic Sciences
American Simmental Association
U.S. Department of Agriculture
FWCI
6.82
Citation Percentile
1.0%
Citation Trend
Fields of Study
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