# NMD-VCell database-paper readiness

Status: `v1_final_release_freeze_candidate`

NMD-VCell is frozen here as a database and evidence-governance release
candidate. It is not a validated disease-prediction or clinical decision-support
release.

## Boundary sentence for manuscript and website

v1.0 is a database and evidence-governance release; it is not a validated disease-prediction or clinical decision-support release.

## Internal gates

- `single_source_release_identity`: pass (api/v1.1/release_manifest.json)
- `analysis_core_archive_checksum`: pass (checksums.sha256)
- `sqlite_integrity_and_nonempty_tables`: pass (downloads/large_assets/nmd_vcell_sqlite_v0.9.2_schema1.1_20260725.sqlite/parts_manifest.tsv)
- `typed_canonical_api`: pass (api/v1.1/openapi.json)
- `bounded_candidate_decision_state`: pass (api/v1.1/genes/GFOD2.json)
- `v1_release_freeze_gate`: pass (api/v1.1/v1_release_gate.json)
- `prediction_registry_scaffold`: pass (api/v1.1/prediction_registry.json)
- `database_paper_policy_package`: pass (downloads/DATABASE_PAPER_READINESS.md)
- `external_authorization_dossier_package`: pass (downloads/V1_EXTERNAL_AUTHORIZATION_DOSSIER.md)
- `evidence_atlas_overlay_archive_checksum`: pass (api/v1.1/overlay_archive_identity.json)

## External gates still required

- `permanent_doi_archive`: pending_external_action — DOI for the unchanged canonical archive
- `institution_approved_data_licence`: pending_institutional_approval — Approved data licence identifier and text
- `approved_code_licence`: pending_institutional_approval — Approved code licence identifier and text
- `final_maintainer_and_institution_metadata`: pending_author_input — Approved maintainer, affiliation and contact metadata

## Citable package

- `api/v1.1/release_manifest.json`
- `api/v1.1/openapi.json`
- `api/v1.3/research-objects/registry.json`
- `api/v1.1/v1_release_gate.json`
- `api/v1.1/v1_external_authorization_dossier.json`
- `api/v1.1/prediction_registry.json`
- `ro-crate-metadata.json`
- `codemeta.json`
- `checksums.sha256`
- `downloads/nmd_vcell_data_dictionary_schema_1.1.tsv`
- `downloads/DATABASE_PAPER_READINESS.md`
- `downloads/NAR_DATABASE_CHECKLIST.md`
- `downloads/DATA_AVAILABILITY.md`
- `downloads/MAINTENANCE_POLICY.md`
- `downloads/VERSIONING_POLICY.md`
- `downloads/V1_EXTERNAL_AUTHORIZATION_DOSSIER.md`
- `downloads/v1_deposit_manifest.json`
- `downloads/v1_deposit_file_list.tsv`
- `downloads/v1_authorization_checklist.tsv`
- `downloads/v1_licence_maintainer_metadata_template.tsv`
- `downloads/prediction_card.schema.json`
- `downloads/outcome_board.schema.json`
- `downloads/external_validation_import_template.json`
- `downloads/v1_release_handoff_checklist.tsv`
- `downloads/V1_EXTERNAL_GATE_HANDOFF.md`
- `downloads/v1_external_gate_input_template.json`
- `downloads/validate_v1_external_gates.py`

This file is deliberately conservative: all internal gates passing does not
mint a DOI, approve licences or authorize formal v1.0 wording.