dbCAN-seq update: CAZyme gene clusters and substrates in microbiomes is a dataset published in Nucleic Acids Research (2022). On theSindex it has a DataRank of 2.0, placing it in the top 10.8% of the data-sharing corpus. It has been cited 82 times, with 76 citing works in its 1-hop citation network. Its calibrated FAIR score is 50/100.
Ranks in the top 11% 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.
“All the data are free available online at https://bcb.unl.edu/dbCAN_seq”
The paper gives a web URL (https://bcb.unl.edu/dbCAN_seq) for the data, which is not a persistent identifier scheme (DOI, Handle, ARK, URN, or repository accession).
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'
“All the data are free available online at https://bcb.unl.edu/dbCAN_seq”
The data are hosted on a university website (bcb.unl.edu), not in a named repository listed in re3data/FAIRsharing; the holder is the dbCAN-seq project, a non-repository host. [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
“All the data are free available online at https://bcb.unl.edu/dbCAN_seq”
The dataset identifier (URL) appears only in the body text, not as a reference-list entry.
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 the data are free available online at https://bcb.unl.edu/dbCAN_seq”
The data-availability statement provides a URL to a project website, not a repository record with an accession or DOI, so it does not point to a repository record. [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 1. CAZyme and CGC data statistics in dbCAN-seq MAG databases”
The paper includes Table 1, which itemises the counts of CAZymes, CGCs, and MAGs, forming an itemised 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'
“All the data are free available online at https://bcb.unl.edu/dbCAN_seq”
The paper states a direct URL with no precondition, embargo, or registration requirement, so the data are unconditionally accessible.
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 the data are free available online at https://bcb.unl.edu/dbCAN_seq”
The paper labels the data as 'free available online', which is a natural-language synonym for open access, satisfying the access-level label requirement.
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 microbial MAGs, not human-subject or sensitive data, so no gatekeeper is named or required.
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 data will remain available or when they become accessible; it only says they are free available online with no retention period. [majority verdict 'no' (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'
“batch download all the CAZymes and CGCs in tsv summary and fasta sequence formats as compressed tarballs”
The paper states that data are available in TSV and FASTA formats, both of which are open, community-standard formats.
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
“CAZyDB”— not found in the paper; verdict downgraded
The paper names CAZyDB (the Carbohydrate-Active enZYmes Database), which is a community standard database and classification system for CAZymes. [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'
The paper does not provide an identifier (accession, DOI, RRID) for any external resource used or derived from; it only references databases by name.
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 specify any license or terms of use for the data; the CC BY license applies only 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'
The paper does not provide a version token, data release date, or any identifier that pins a specific snapshot of the data.
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 provide a locator (URL, DOI, package identifier) for the study's own code; it only mentions the dbCAN2 web server but no code repository.
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 (NIH) awards [R01GM140370, R21AI171952]; National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER award [DBI-1933521]; United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) award [58-8042-9–089]”
The paper lists specific grant numbers (R01GM140370, R21AI171952, DBI-1933521, 58-8042-9–089) attached to named funders, satisfying the award identifier requirement.
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 run_dbcan program of dbCAN2 was run on all the MAGs to predict CAZymes and CGCs with default parameters”— not found in the paper; verdict downgraded
The paper names specific tools (run_dbcan, HMMER, DIAMOND, eCAMI, CGC-Finder) used to produce the data, providing proper noun and version-tokened provenance. [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. CAZyme and CGC data statistics in dbCAN-seq MAG databases”
Variable-level definitions are provided inside the article via tables (Table 1, Table 2), but no separate documentation object (README, codebook) is stated to accompany the data. [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
0.663
From this paper's citation signal
Citation Network Contribution
1.3
From 56 citing papers with measurable signal
Ranked by each citer's contribution to N(p) — log1p(Cq) divided by its reference count — out of 76 citers.
National Institutes of Health
Grant: R01GM140370
National Institutes of Health
Grant: R21AI171952
National Science Foundation
Grant: DBI-1933521
United States Department of Agriculture
Grant: 58-8042-9–089
National Institutes of Health
Grant: 5R01GM140370-03
Carbohydrate enzyme gene clusters in human gut microbiome
National Institutes of Health
Grant: 5R21AI171952-02
Bioinformatics Discovery of Anti-CRISPR Operons in Human Gut Microbiome
National Science Foundation
Grant: 1933521
CAREER: Evolutionary Genomics of Enzymes for Complex Carbohydrate Metabolism
FWCI
5.09
Citation Percentile
1.0%
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