The Natural Products Atlas 2.0: a database of microbially-derived natural products is a dataset published in Nucleic Acids Research (2021). On theSindex it has a DataRank of 4.3, placing it in the top 5.1% of the data-sharing corpus. It has been cited 328 times, with 100 citing works in its 1-hop citation network. Its calibrated FAIR score is 54/100.
Ranks in the top 5% 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.
“The database can be accessed via the new interactive website at https://www.npatlas.org.”
The paper provides a web URL for the data, not a persistent identifier scheme identifier. [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'
“Zenodo repository”— not found in the paper; verdict downgraded
The paper names the Zenodo repository as the holder of previous versions of the database. [downgraded to 'partial' — no verifiable quote from the paper] [majority verdict 'partial' (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
“The Natural Products Atlas is available at https://www.npatlas.org.”— not found in the paper; verdict downgraded
The dataset identifier (URL) appears in the body text (Data Availability section), 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
“The Natural Products Atlas is available at https://www.npatlas.org.”— not found in the paper; verdict downgraded
The data availability statement points to a website URL, not a repository record with an accession or DOI. [downgraded to 'no' — no verifiable quote from the paper]
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 new release increases the size of the database by 8128 compounds: 3176 of fungal origin and 4952 of bacterial origin.”— not found in the paper; verdict downgraded
The dataset content is described in running prose, not in an itemised inventory. [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'
“The Natural Products Atlas is available at https://www.npatlas.org.”— not found in the paper; verdict downgraded
The data availability statement gives a direct URL with no stated precondition to access the data. [downgraded to 'partial' — no verifiable quote from the paper] [majority verdict 'partial' (3/5 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
“The database is provided under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0).”
The paper states the license for the data, but does not explicitly label the access level using standard vocabulary such as 'open access' or 'freely available'; the license implies openness but the label must 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 sensitive or human-subject, so 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
The paper does not state how long the current version of the database will be retained or when it becomes available; only previous versions are mentioned as available via Zenodo. [majority verdict 'no' (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'
“In addition to the original TSV download of the full database we now offer an Excel version of the same TSV format, an SDF download of all compounds, a structured JSON format for the full database, and graphML exports of both the Cluster and Nodegraphs displayed in the Explore section of the website.”— not found in the paper; verdict downgraded
The paper names TSV, SDF, JSON, and graphML, all of which are open, non-proprietary formats. [downgraded to 'partial' — no verifiable quote from the paper] [majority verdict 'partial' (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
“We have added classifications from both systems to every entry.”— not found in the paper; verdict downgraded
The paper names NPClassifier and ClassyFire, which are community standard chemical classification systems, and also references NCBI taxonomy. [downgraded to 'partial' — no verifiable quote from the paper] [majority verdict 'partial' (3/5 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'
No identifier for an external resource (e.g., DOI, accession, RRID) for any resource other than the paper's own dataset appears in the body text; the Zenodo DOI is for the previous version of the same dataset. [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'
“The database is provided under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0).”
The paper explicitly states a standard open license (CC BY 4.0) for 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'
“The Natural Products Atlas 2.0”
The paper provides a version token (2.0) for the database. [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'
The paper does not mention any code availability, no repository URL, DOI, or package identifier for the code used to build the database.
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 [AT008718 to R.G.L., GM124461 to J.D.R.]”
The paper provides specific grant numbers for the funding agencies.
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 FastAPI framework for Python was used to build the API.”
The paper names specific tools and frameworks used to build the database, such as FastAPI, PostgreSQL, and RDKit, as well as external databases like Mycobank and LPSN.
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
“In the new version of the database we have incorporated additional data from Mycobank and The List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN) to include assignments at all taxonomic ranks.”— not found in the paper; verdict downgraded
The paper describes the database structure and fields in running prose, but no separate documentation object (e.g., README, codebook) is named as accompanying 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
0.869
From this paper's citation signal
Citation Network Contribution
3.4
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.
National Institutes of Health
Grant: AT008718
National Institutes of Health
Grant: GM124461
Ministry of Science, Technology and Telecommunications of Costa Rica
Grant: 2-1-4-17-1-037
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
Grant: unidentified
unidentified
National Institutes of Health
Grant: 4R00GM124461-02
Cytochrome P450 Enzymes from Streptomyces: Diverse Biocatalysts in Natural Products Biosynthesis
National Institutes of Health
Grant: 5U41AT008718-08
The Center for High Content Functional Annotation of Natural Products
Fields of Study
Keywords
Sustainable Development Goals