ABC-GWAS: Functional Annotation of Estrogen Receptor-Positive Breast Cancer Genetic Variants is a dataset published in Frontiers in Genetics (2020). On theSindex it has a DataRank of 0.356, placing it in the top 49.7% of the data-sharing corpus. It has been cited 6 times, with 5 citing works in its 1-hop citation network. Its calibrated FAIR score is 46/100.
Ranks in the top 50% 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.
“ABC-GWAS is available at http://education.knoweng.org/abc-gwas/ .”
The given identifier is a URL, not a persistent identifier scheme (e.g., DOI, Handle). [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'
“ABC-GWAS is available at http://education.knoweng.org/abc-gwas/ .”
The host is education.knoweng.org, a university website, not a curated data repository. [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
“ABC-GWAS is available at http://education.knoweng.org/abc-gwas/ .”
The dataset identifier (URL) appears only in 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
“ABC-GWAS is available at http://education.knoweng.org/abc-gwas/.”— not found in the paper; verdict downgraded
The statement points to a URL (web resource), not a repository record with an accession/DOI. [downgraded to 'no' — no verifiable quote from the paper] [majority verdict 'no' (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
“ABC-GWAS, an interactive database of functional annotation of estrogen receptor-positive breast cancer GWAS variants. Our resource includes expression quantitative trait loci, long-range chromatin interaction predictions, and transcription factor binding motif analyses to prioritize putative target genes, causal variants, and transcription factors.”— not found in the paper; verdict downgraded
The dataset is described in running prose, not in an itemised inventory (section, table, or list). [downgraded to 'no' — no verifiable quote from the paper] [majority verdict 'no' (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'
“ABC-GWAS is available at http://education.knoweng.org/abc-gwas/ .”
The URL is given with no stated precondition, implying unconditional access. [majority verdict 'yes' (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
“ABC-GWAS is available at http://education.knoweng.org/abc-gwas/ .”
The paper describes the access action (the URL) but does not label the access level explicitly. [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 study's own data are not sensitive human data; no gatekeeper is named for the ABC-GWAS database.
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
No sentence states how long the ABC-GWAS database will remain available or its retention period.
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'
No file format is named for the released data (the database is interactive, not a file set).
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 community data or metadata standard (e.g., MIAME, BIDS, GO) is named for the ABC-GWAS database.
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 datasets analyzed in the current study are available in the ENCODE project ( https://www.encodeproject.org/ ) and the TCGA repository ( http://cancergenome.nih.gov/ ) through GDC ( https://portal.gdc.cancer.gov/projects ) and dbGaP ( https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/gap ).”
The paper provides URLs (identifiers) for the source datasets (ENCODE, TCGA, GDC, dbGaP) used in the study.
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'
No license is named for the data; the GNU GPL v3.0 applies to the software, not the data content. [majority verdict 'no' (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'
No version token or date is provided for the ABC-GWAS database snapshot.
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'
“Project home page: http://education.knoweng.org/abc-gwas/ .”
The code location is a project home page, not a code-forge URL or archive DOI. [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)
“This work was supported in part by funds from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) R01CA163336, NIH U54GM114838”
Award numbers (R01CA163336, U54GM114838) are provided for the funding. [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
“We used the Michigan Imputation Server for imputation ( Das et al., 2016 ), choosing the Haplotype Reference Consortium (HRC) r1.1 2016 as a reference panel ( Loh et al., 2016a ), Eagle v2.3 for phasing ( Loh et al., 2016b ), and EUR population as the quality control option.”
The paper names specific tools and versions used to produce the data (e.g., Michigan Imputation Server, Eagle v2.3).
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 README, data dictionary, or codebook is described as accompanying the dataset.
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
0.292
From this paper's citation signal
Citation Network Contribution
0.0643
From 2 citing papers with measurable signal
Ranked by each citer's contribution to N(p) — log1p(Cq) divided by its reference count — out of 5 citers.
NCI NIH HHS
Grant: R01 CA163336
NIAID NIH HHS
Grant: U54 AI117924
NIGMS NIH HHS
Grant: U54 GM114838
NHGRI NIH HHS
Grant: R01 HG010045
National Institutes of Health
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