MIBiG 3.0: a community-driven effort to annotate experimentally validated biosynthetic gene clusters is a dataset published in Nucleic Acids Research (2022). On theSindex it has a DataRank of 3.8, placing it in the top 5.9% of the data-sharing corpus. It has been cited 461 times, with 100 citing works in its 1-hop citation network. Its calibrated FAIR score is 40/100.
Ranks in the top 6% 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.
“MIBiG 3.0 is accessible online at https://mibig.secondarymetabolites.org/.”
The paper provides a web URL for the data, not a persistent identifier scheme (DOI, Handle, ARK, or repository accession). [majority verdict 'partial' (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 MIBiG Repository is available at https://mibig.secondarymetabolites.org/.”— not found in the paper; verdict downgraded
The paper names 'MIBiG Repository' as the holder, which is a domain-specific repository. [downgraded to 'partial' — no verifiable quote from the paper] [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
“The MIBiG Repository is available at https://mibig.secondarymetabolites.org/.”— not found in the paper; verdict downgraded
The dataset identifier (the URL) appears only in the body text of the Data Availability section, not in the reference list. [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 MIBiG Repository is available at https://mibig.secondarymetabolites.org/.”— not found in the paper; verdict downgraded
The data availability statement points to a repository with a URL, which is a public repository link (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 2. Entries in MIBiG 3.0 by phylum”
The paper contains a table (Table 2) that itemises the number of entries per phylum, which is an inventory of the dataset. [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'
“There is no access restriction for academic or commercial use of the repository and its data.”— not found in the paper; verdict downgraded
The text gives a route to the data with no stated precondition, stating the data are freely available. [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
“There is no access restriction for academic or commercial use of the repository and its data.”— not found in the paper; verdict downgraded
The text explicitly states 'no access restriction', which is a synonym for open access, so an access-level label is present. [downgraded to 'partial' — no verifiable quote from the paper]
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 human-subject data and no gatekeeper is named in the text.
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 mention any retention period, persistence commitment, or availability timing for the data.
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'
“All data can be easily downloaded and parsed in bulk from our database in JSON and GenBank format”— not found in the paper; verdict downgraded
JSON and GenBank are open, community-standard 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
“Minimum Information about a Biosynthetic Gene cluster (MIBiG): a standardised data format”
The MIBiG standard is a community standard for BGC annotation. [majority verdict 'yes' (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'
No identifier for an external resource (e.g., database accession, RRID) is given in the text. [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 paper does not name a standard open license for the data; it only states that there is no access restriction, which is not a named license.
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'
“MIBiG 3.0”— not found in the paper; verdict downgraded
The paper consistently uses 'MIBiG 3.0' as a version token for the dataset. [downgraded to 'partial' — no verifiable quote from the paper] [majority verdict 'partial' (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 source code components, JSON-formatted data standard, and SQL schema for the MIBiG Repository are available on GitHub (https://github.com/mibig-secmet)”— not found in the paper; verdict downgraded
A machine-resolvable GitHub URL is given for the code. [downgraded to 'partial' — no verifiable quote from the paper] [majority verdict 'partial' (3/5 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)
“948770-DECIPHER”
The paper lists an ERC Starting Grant number (948770-DECIPHER) among other award 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
“PIKAChU (20)”
The paper names PIKAChU as a software tool used for SMILES validation during data production. [majority verdict 'yes' (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
“The source code components, JSON-formatted data standard, and SQL schema for the MIBiG Repository are available on GitHub”— not found in the paper; verdict downgraded
A JSON schema and SQL schema are named as documentation objects that travel with the data. [downgraded to 'partial' — no verifiable quote from the paper] [majority verdict 'partial' (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
0.920
From this paper's citation signal
Citation Network Contribution
2.9
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.
ERC Starting
Grant: 948770-DECIPHER
Novo Nordisk Foundation
Grant: NNF20CC0035580
Novo Nordisk Foundation
Grant: NNF16OC0021746
Danish National Research Foundation
Grant: DNRF137
Danish National Research Foundation
Grant: U24AT010811
Danish National Research Foundation
Grant: F32AT011475
Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) Veni Science
Grant: VI.Veni.202.130
CARTNET
Grant: 765147
SECRETed
Grant: 101000794
MARBLES
Grant: 101000392
Horizon 2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions
Grant: 893122
Horizon 2020 Marie Sklodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship
Grant: MSCA-IF-EF-ST-897121
U.S. Department of Energy
Grant: DE-AC02-05CH11231
Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología
Grant: 757173
Portuguese Science and Technology Foundation
Grant: SFRH/BD/140567/2018
National Science Foundation
Grant: CBET-2032243
National Research Foundation of Korea
Grant: NRF-2022R1C1C2004118
National Research Foundation of Korea
Grant: NRF-2020R1C1C1004046
National Institutes of Health
Grant: GM134688
National Institutes of Health
Grant: 1R01AI155694
Netherlands eScience Center
Grant: ASDI.2017.030
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
Grant: 398967434-TRR 261
Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
Grant: BBSRC
Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
Grant: BB/R022054/1
Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
Grant: BB/W013959/1
Fundação Carlos Chagas Filho de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Rio de Janeiro
Grant: E-26/211.314/2019
Fundaçao para a Ciencia e Tecnologia
Grant: SFRH/BD/136367/2018
Cooperative Research Centres Projects scheme
Grant: CRCPFIVE000119
Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología
Grant: 735867
European Research Council
Grant: 948770
NIGMS NIH HHS
Grant: F32 GM134688
Novo Nordisk Fonden
Grant: NNF10CC1016517
NNF Center for Biosustainability
Grant: Natural Products
NIAID NIH HHS
Grant: R01 AI155694
German Chemical Industry scholarship
Natural Sciences and Engineering Council of Canada PGSD
Rothamsted Science Initiatives Catalyst Award
University of Strathclyde
UK government Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
LOEWE Center for Translational Biodiversity Genomics
Natural Sciences and Engineering Council of Canada
Odo van Vloten foundation
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