GESS: a database of global evaluation of SARS-CoV-2/hCoV-19 sequences is a dataset published in Nucleic Acids Research (2020). On theSindex it has a DataRank of 3.1, placing it in the top 7.2% of the data-sharing corpus. It has been cited 78 times, with 73 citing works in its 1-hop citation network. Its calibrated FAIR score is 52/100.
Ranks in the top 7% 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.
“GESS is published webpage served by R shiny and available at address ( https://wan-bioinfo.shinyapps.io/GESS/ ).”
The only identifier given is a web URL, which is not a persistent identifier scheme (DOI, Handle, ARK, or repository accession). [majority verdict 'partial' (3/5 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'
“GESS is published webpage served by R shiny and available at address ( https://wan-bioinfo.shinyapps.io/GESS/ ).”
The data are hosted on general-purpose shinyapps.io, which is not a curated data repository. [majority verdict 'partial' (4/5 passes agreed)]
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
“GESS is published webpage served by R shiny and available at address ( https://wan-bioinfo.shinyapps.io/GESS/ ).”
The dataset identifier (URL) appears only in the body text, not as a reference-list entry. [majority verdict 'partial' (3/5 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
“GESS is published webpage served by R shiny and available at address ( https://wan-bioinfo.shinyapps.io/GESS/ ).”
The statement points to a web application URL, not a repository record with an accession or persistent identifier. [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
“The first version of GESS database contains 42,461 high-quality and high-coverage SARS-CoV-2/hCoV-19 genome sequences downloaded from GISAID as of 22 July 2020.”— not found in the paper; verdict downgraded
The dataset's content is described in running prose (count of sequences and source), but no itemised inventory (section, table, or list) is provided. [downgraded to 'no' — no verifiable quote from the paper] [majority verdict 'no' (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'
“GESS is published webpage served by R shiny and available at address ( https://wan-bioinfo.shinyapps.io/GESS/ ).”
The statement gives a direct URL with no precondition, implying unconditional public access. [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
“GESS is published webpage served by R shiny and available at address ( https://wan-bioinfo.shinyapps.io/GESS/ ).”
The text describes the action of accessing the data via the URL but does not apply an explicit access-level label. [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
The data are viral sequences, not sensitive human-subject data, 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
“There will be more and more SARS-CoV-2 sequences collected by GESS with weekly updates.”
The paper states that the data are updated weekly but does not specify a retention period or permanent archive commitment. [majority verdict 'partial' (3/5 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'
“The summary table can be downloaded by user as either CSV format or Excel format.”
CSV is an open, non-proprietary format named for download of the data. [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 data or metadata community standard (e.g., MIAME, ISA-Tab, ontology) is named for the GESS dataset.
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'
“answers”— not found in the paper; verdict downgraded
dummy [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 license is stated for the GESS dataset; the paper's CC-BY-NC 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'
“The first version of GESS database contains 42,461 high-quality and high-coverage SARS-CoV-2/hCoV-19 genome sequences as of 22 July 2020.”— not found in the paper; verdict downgraded
The dataset is labeled 'first version', which is a version token. [downgraded to 'partial' — no verifiable quote from the paper] [majority verdict 'partial' (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'
No locator for the study's own code (e.g., GitHub, archive DOI) is provided; only the live Shiny app URL is given.
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)
“National Institutes of Health [P30CA082709 to J.W.]”
A specific grant number (P30CA082709) is provided for the work. [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
“we used a software, minimap2 (24), to pairwise align SARS-CoV-2 sequences with the reference genome Wuhan-Hu-1. Then a tool ANNOVAR (25) was adopted to annotate variants based on NCBI reference sequence: NC_045512.2 .”— not found in the paper; verdict downgraded
The text names specific software tools (minimap2, ANNOVAR) used to produce the data. [downgraded to 'partial' — no verifiable quote from the paper]
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 named as accompanying the data. [majority verdict 'no' (3/5 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
0.655
From this paper's citation signal
Citation Network Contribution
2.4
From 62 citing papers with measurable signal
Ranked by each citer's contribution to N(p) — log1p(Cq) divided by its reference count — out of 73 citers.
National Institutes of Health
Grant: P30CA082709
National Institutes of Health
Grant: 3P30CA082709-16S3
Indiana University Melvin and Bren Simon Cancer Center Support Grant
Fields of Study
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Sustainable Development Goals