ChEMBL: towards direct deposition of bioassay data is a dataset published in Nucleic Acids Research (2018). On theSindex it has a DataRank of 8.0, placing it in the top 2% of the data-sharing corpus. It has been cited 2,455 times, with 100 citing works in its 1-hop citation network. Its calibrated FAIR score is 88/100.
Ranks in the top 2% 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.
“ChEMBL is a large, open-access bioactivity database ( https://www.ebi.ac.uk/chembl )”
The paper gives a web URL, not a persistent identifier scheme like a DOI. [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'
“ChEMBL is a large, open-access bioactivity database”
The paper names ChEMBL, a known data repository, as the holder of 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
“ChEMBL is a large, open-access bioactivity database ( https://www.ebi.ac.uk/chembl )”
The identifier appears only in the body text, not in the reference list. [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 ChEMBL database is made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported license ( http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0 ).”
The statement points to the license, not to a repository record with an accession. [majority verdict 'partial' (3/5 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
The paper describes the database content in prose but does not provide an itemised inventory (section, table, or list) of files, records, or variables for a specific dataset. [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 ChEMBL database is made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported license ( http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0 ).”
The paper states the data is available under an open license with no stated precondition, indicating unconditional access. [majority verdict 'yes' (4/5 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 ChEMBL database is made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported license ( http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0 ).”
The paper explicitly labels the access level of the data by stating the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported license. [majority verdict 'yes' (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
The paper does not address sensitive or human-subject data, and no gatekeeper is named for the ChEMBL data.
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, permanent archival, or when the data become available beyond the current availability. [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'
“Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, RDF ( 26 ), an SD file of compound structures and a FASTA file of the target sequences.”
The paper lists open, community-standard formats (RDF, SD file, FASTA, SQLite) among the available download formats for the ChEMBL data. [majority verdict 'yes' (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
“assay descriptions are mapped to controlled vocabularies such as the Cell Line Ontology ( 18 ), Uberon ( 19 ) and BioAssay Ontology ( 20 )”
The paper names community-standard vocabularies (Cell Line Ontology, Uberon, BioAssay Ontology) used for the data. [majority verdict 'yes' (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'
“this target is also recorded in the form of a UniProt ( 15 ) accession, or list of accessions.”
The paper includes UniProt accessions as identifiers for external protein resources. [majority verdict 'yes' (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 ChEMBL database is made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported license ( http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0 ).”
The paper explicitly names the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported license, which is an open standard reuse license. [majority verdict 'yes' (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'
“Release 24 of the ChEMBL database contains bioactivity information”
The paper identifies the data snapshot as 'Release 24'. [majority verdict 'yes' (3/5 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 ChEMBL web services are open source, available from the ChEMBL GitHub repository ( https://github.com/chembl/ ) and are licensed under an Apache 2 license.”
The paper gives a machine-resolvable URL (GitHub) for the code. [majority verdict 'yes' (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)
“Strategic Award from the Wellcome Trust [WT104104/Z/14/Z]; Member States of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL); National Institutes of Health (NIH) Common Fund under award number [U54CA189205]; European Union Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007–2013) [602156]; Innovative Medicines Initiative Joint Undertaking [115002]; Open Targets.”
The paper provides specific grant numbers (WT104104/Z/14/Z, U54CA189205, etc.) and funder names for the work. [majority verdict 'yes' (4/5 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
“the majority of the properties (MW_FREEBASE, ALOGP, HBA, HBD, PSA, RTB, QED_WEIGHTED, FULL_MWT, AROMATIC_RINGS, HEAVY_ATOMS, MW_MONOISOTOPIC, FULL_MOLFORMULA, HBA_LIPINSKI and HBD_LIPINSKI) are now being calculated using RDKit ( https://www.rdkit.org , 2018), with ACD_MOST_APKA, ACD_MOST_BPKA, ACD_LOGP, ACD_LOGD and MOLECULAR_SPECIES still calculated with ACD/Labs software.”
The paper names specific tools (RDKit, ACD/Labs) and their versions used to calculate properties, providing provenance for data generation. [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
No documentation object (README, data dictionary, codebook) is named as accompanying the data; the paper itself serves as description. [majority verdict 'no' (2/5 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
1.2
From this paper's citation signal
Citation Network Contribution
6.9
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.
Wellcome Trust
Grant: WT104104/Z/14/Z
National Institutes of Health
Grant: U54CA189205
European Union Seventh Framework Programme
Grant: FP7/2007–2013
European Union Seventh Framework Programme
Grant: 602156
Hepatic and Cardiac Toxicity Systems modelling
Innovative Medicines Initiative Joint Undertaking
Grant: 115002
Integrating bioinformatics and chemoinformatics approaches for the development of expert systems allowing the in silico prediction of toxicities
Wellcome Trust
Grant: 104104/A/14/Z
National Institutes of Health
Grant: 5U54CA189205-02
Admin Core
Wellcome Trust
Grant: 104104
The ChEMBL Database An Open Resource for Drug Discovery
Wellcome Trust
Grant: unidentified
unidentified
National Institutes of Health
Grant: 3U54CA189205-02S1
Illuminating the Druggable Genome Knowledge Management Center (IDG KMC)
Wellcome Trust
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