MITE: the Minimum Information about a Tailoring Enzyme database for capturing specialized metabolite biosynthesis is a dataset published in Nucleic Acids Research (2025). On theSindex it has a DataRank of 0.369, placing it in the top 48.6% of the data-sharing corpus. It has been cited 9 times, with 9 citing works in its 1-hop citation network. Its calibrated FAIR score is 46/100.
Ranks in the top 49% 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.
“MITE is freely available at https://mite.bioinformatics.nl/.”— not found in the paper; verdict downgraded
The strongest identifier in the body text is a URL (https://mite.bioinformatics.nl/); the DOI is only in the reference list, which is not credited. [downgraded to 'no' — no verifiable quote from the paper] [majority verdict 'no' (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'
“The JSON files are stored on Zenodo (https://zenodo.org/)[20], serving as the single source of truth.”— not found in the paper; verdict downgraded
Zenodo is a named repository. [downgraded to 'partial' — no verifiable quote from the paper]
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
“Zdouc MM, Rutz A. MITE dataset. Version 1.16. Zenodo, https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.16759748, 8 August 2025.”— not found in the paper; verdict downgraded
The dataset appears as a reference-list entry with a DOI. [downgraded to 'partial' — no verifiable quote from the paper] [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
“The MITE database is released to the public domain under the Creative Commons 'No Rights Reserved' license (https://creativecommons.org/public-domain/cc0/) and available on https://mite.bioinformatics.nl/ and Zenodo [20].”— not found in the paper; verdict downgraded
The statement points to a repository record (Zenodo) and a URL. [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
“In its current version (1.16 [20]), the MITE database contains 202 'active' entries, amounting to a total of 2639 data points (defined as key-value pairs, excluding metadata specified in Fig. 1A), including 283 reaction SMARTS representations and 291 example reactions.”— 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]
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 MITE database is released to the public domain under the Creative Commons 'No Rights Reserved' license (https://creativecommons.org/public-domain/cc0/) and available on https://mite.bioinformatics.nl/ and Zenodo [20].”— not found in the paper; verdict downgraded
The access route (Zenodo and website) is stated with no precondition. [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
“The MITE database is released to the public domain under the Creative Commons 'No Rights Reserved' license (https://creativecommons.org/public-domain/cc0/) and available on https://mite.bioinformatics.nl/ and Zenodo [20].”— not found in the paper; verdict downgraded
The paper explicitly labels the data as 'released to the public domain', which is an access-level label. [downgraded to 'partial' — no verifiable quote from the paper] [majority verdict 'partial' (3/5 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 not sensitive 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
“MITE is freely accessible at https://mite.bioinformatics.nl/.”— not found in the paper; verdict downgraded
The paper states the data are accessible now but does not specify how long they persist. [downgraded to 'no' — no verifiable quote from the paper] [majority verdict 'no' (2/5 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 MITE database is available as a collection of JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) files”
JSON is an open, community-standard format. [majority verdict 'yes' (3/5 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 from the accepted list is named. [majority verdict 'no' (2/5 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'
“Starting from the peptidic precursor BotA (MIBiG cluster BGC0000469)”— not found in the paper; verdict downgraded
The paper gives an identifier for an external resource (MIBiG cluster BGC0000469). [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'
“The MITE database is released to the public domain under the Creative Commons 'No Rights Reserved' license (CC0)”— not found in the paper; verdict downgraded
CC0 is an open standard license. [downgraded to 'partial' — no verifiable quote from the paper] [majority verdict 'partial' (4/5 passes agreed)]
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 its current version (1.16 [20])”— not found in the paper; verdict downgraded
A version token (1.16) is stated. [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 used for the web interface [29], the data model [30], and data validation [31] is available at https://github.com/mite-standard, licensed under the MIT License.”— not found in the paper; verdict downgraded
A machine-resolvable locator (GitHub URL) is given for the code. [downgraded to 'partial' — no verifiable quote from the paper]
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)
“Grant 21/07038-0”— not found in the paper; verdict downgraded
A specific grant number is provided in the funding section. [downgraded to 'partial' — no verifiable quote from the paper] [majority verdict 'partial' (3/5 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
“uses the cheminformatics tool RDKit”— not found in the paper; verdict downgraded
The paper names a specific tool (RDKit) 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
“Figure 1. MITE data standard and database content. Summary of the MITE data model in panel (A), indicating mandatory and optional parameters.”— not found in the paper; verdict downgraded
Variable definitions live inside the article (Figure 1A), not in a separate documentation object shipped with the data. [downgraded to 'no' — no verifiable quote from the paper] [majority verdict 'no' (4/5 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
0.345
From this paper's citation signal
Citation Network Contribution
0.0235
From 3 citing papers with measurable signal
Ranked by each citer's contribution to N(p) — log1p(Cq) divided by its reference count — out of 9 citers.
São Paulo Research Foundation
Grant: 21/07038-0
São Paulo Research Foundation
Grant: 2021/08947-3
São Paulo Research Foundation
Grant: 2023/06874-4
UKRI
Grant: MR/V022334/1
NIH
Grant: F32AT011475
Horizon 2020
Grant: 802736, MORPHEUS
Horizon 2020
Grant: 101 000 392
Horizon 2020
Grant: 101 081 957
Horizon 2020
Grant: 862 923
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
Grant: 239748522
German Research Foundation
Grant: 495740318
SINTEF
Grant: 102 022 750
SINTEF
Grant: 102 029 187
SINTEF
Grant: 102024676-14
SINTEF
Grant: 102 029 407
Novo Nordisk Foundation
Grant: NNF23OC0086472
Novo Nordisk Foundation
Grant: NNF20CC0035580
Horizon Europe Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Grant: 101 072 485
European Research Council
Grant: 948770-DECIPHER
Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research
Grant: KICH1.LWV04.21.013
European Research Council
Grant: 802736
European Research Council
Grant: 948770
National Agri-Food and Biomanufacturing Institute
University Grants Commission
Department of Biotechnology
German Center for Infection Research
National Agri-Food and Biomanufacturing Institute (NABI)
National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health
Danish National Research Foundation
Horizon Europe programme
DFG
Hans-Fischer-Gesellschaft
State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation
the Werner Siemens Foundation
Dutch Research Council (NWO)
German Research Foundation
German Research Foundation
Department of Biotechnology
National Agri-Food and Biomanufacturing Institute (NABI)
University Grants Commission
the Werner Siemens Foundation
DFG
NWO
State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation
Horizon Europe programme
Danish National Research Foundation
Hans-Fischer-Gesellschaft
German Center for Infection Research
FWCI
8.29
Citation Percentile
1.0%
Citation Trend
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