RNAcentral 2021: secondary structure integration, improved sequence search and new member databases is a dataset published in Nucleic Acids Research (2020). On theSindex it has a DataRank of 5.1, placing it in the top 4.2% of the data-sharing corpus. It has been cited 419 times, with 100 citing works in its 1-hop citation network. Its calibrated FAIR score is 42/100.
Ranks in the top 4% 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.
“RNAcentral is freely available at https://rnacentral.org.”
The identifier given is a web URL starting with https, not a persistent identifier scheme (DOI, Handle, ARK, etc.). [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'
“RNAcentral is a comprehensive database of non-coding RNA (ncRNA) sequences”
RNAcentral is named as the database holding the data. [majority verdict 'yes' (3/5 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
“All data are freely available at https://rnacentral.org.”— not found in the paper; verdict downgraded
The dataset's identifier (URL) appears only in the body text, not as a reference-list entry. [downgraded to 'no' — no verifiable quote from the paper] [majority verdict 'no' (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
“All data are freely available at https://rnacentral.org.”— not found in the paper; verdict downgraded
The data availability statement provides a link to a public repository (RNAcentral), which corresponds to 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
“RNAcentral is a comprehensive database of non-coding RNA (ncRNA) sequences that provides a single access point to 44 RNA resources and >18 million ncRNA sequences from a wide range of organisms and RNA types.”
The dataset's content is described in running prose, not in an itemised inventory (section, table, or list). [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'
“All data are freely available at https://rnacentral.org.”— not found in the paper; verdict downgraded
The text gives a route to the data with no stated precondition; the data are stated to be freely available now. [downgraded to 'partial' — no verifiable quote from the paper]
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
“All data are freely available at https://rnacentral.org.”— not found in the paper; verdict downgraded
The paper states 'All data are freely available' which is a natural-language synonym for 'open access'. [downgraded to 'partial' — no verifiable quote from the paper] [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
“All data are freely available at https://rnacentral.org.”— not found in the paper; verdict downgraded
The data are non-sensitive RNA sequences, and no gatekeeper is named; the freely available statement implies no access control.
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
“All data are freely available at https://rnacentral.org.”— not found in the paper; verdict downgraded
The paper states that the data are currently available but provides no persistence commitment or retention period. [downgraded to 'no' — no verifiable quote from the paper]
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 data can be accessed in the FTP archive, as well as through an API and a public Postgres database”— not found in the paper; verdict downgraded
No specific file format (e.g., FASTA, CSV) is named for the released data; only access methods are mentioned.
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
“all RNAcentral sequences have been annotated with Sequence Ontology terms.”
The paper names Sequence Ontology (SO), a community standard ontology for RNA types.
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'
“The code is available at https://github.com/rnacentral under the Apache 2.0 license.”— not found in the paper; verdict downgraded
The paper provides a GitHub URL for the code, which is a machine-resolvable locator for a resource other than the dataset. [downgraded to 'no' — no verifiable quote from the paper] [majority verdict 'no' (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 license is named for the data; the CC BY license 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'
“In the most recent release (version 16), we generated >13 million 2D structure diagrams.”— not found in the paper; verdict downgraded
A version token ('version 16') is stated for the dataset. [downgraded to 'partial' — no verifiable quote from the paper]
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'
“The code is available at https://github.com/rnacentral under the Apache 2.0 license.”— not found in the paper; verdict downgraded
A machine-resolvable code repository URL is given for the study's own code. [downgraded to 'partial' — no verifiable quote from the paper] [majority verdict 'partial' (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)
“Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) [BB/N019199/1]; Wellcome Trust [218302/Z/19/Z, 208349/Z/17/Z]; National Institutes of Health [U24HG003345, U41HG000739]; Charles University [SVV 260588].”— not found in the paper; verdict downgraded
Award/grant numbers are provided for each named funder. [downgraded to 'partial' — no verifiable quote from the paper]
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
“The R2DT software automatically selects the best-matching template from a library of 36322D templates”— not found in the paper; verdict downgraded
The paper names specific software (R2DT, nhmmer, etc.) used to produce the data. [downgraded to 'partial' — no verifiable quote from the paper] [majority verdict 'partial' (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
“Table 1. Sixteen new member databases incorporated into RNAcentral in releases 11–16”— not found in the paper; verdict downgraded
Variable-level definitions are given inside the article (Table 1), not as a separate documentation object shipped with the data. [downgraded to 'no' — no verifiable quote from the paper]
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
0.906
From this paper's citation signal
Citation Network Contribution
4.2
From 100 citing papers with measurable signal
Ranked by each citer's contribution to N(p) — log1p(Cq) divided by its reference count — out of 100 citers.
Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
Grant: BB/N019199/1
RNAcentral, the RNA sequence database
Wellcome Trust
Grant: 218302/Z/19/Z
Wellcome Trust
Grant: 208349/Z/17/Z
National Institutes of Health
Grant: U24HG003345
National Institutes of Health
Grant: U41HG000739
Charles University
Grant: SVV 260588
Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
Grant: BB/J019232/1
NHGRI NIH HHS
Grant: R01 HG006753
NHGRI NIH HHS
Grant: U41 HG007234
National Institutes of Health
Grant: 5U41HG000739-30
FLYBASE: A DROSOPHILA GENOMIC AND GENETIC DATABASE
National Institutes of Health
Grant: 2U24HG003345-18A1
The Nomenclature of Human and Vertebrate Genes
Wellcome Trust
Grant: 218302
A comprehensive platform for the functional annotation of non-coding RNA genes and gene families
National Institutes of Health
Grant: 5U24HG003345-16
The Nomenclature of Human and Vertebrate Genes
Wellcome Trust
Grant: 208349
The Nomenclature of Human and Vertebrate Genes
NLM NIH HHS
Wellcome Trust
NLM NIH HHS
Wellcome Trust
FWCI
12.03
Citation Percentile
1.0%
Citation Trend
Fields of Study
MeSH Terms
Keywords
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Additional file 16 of A GWAS study highlights significant associations between a series of indels in a FLOWERING LOCUS T gene promoter and flowering time in white lupin (Lupinus albus L.)
Additional file 17 of A GWAS study highlights significant associations between a series of indels in a FLOWERING LOCUS T gene promoter and flowering time in white lupin (Lupinus albus L.)
Additional file 17 of A GWAS study highlights significant associations between a series of indels in a FLOWERING LOCUS T gene promoter and flowering time in white lupin (Lupinus albus L.)
Additional file 14 of A GWAS study highlights significant associations between a series of indels in a FLOWERING LOCUS T gene promoter and flowering time in white lupin (Lupinus albus L.)
Additional file 15 of A GWAS study highlights significant associations between a series of indels in a FLOWERING LOCUS T gene promoter and flowering time in white lupin (Lupinus albus L.)