Working tool
Certificate minimum-data checker
Score a certificate against the Institute’s minimum data standard, with critical fields weighted separately.
§1Checker
§2Critical and recommended fields
A critical field is one without which an identity or content claim cannot be supported. A recommended field improves interpretation without being a condition of it. The classification of counter-ion content differs by sequence: it is critical for a basic peptide carrying multiple positive charges and recommended for a neutral or acidic sequence, following a partially accepted submission that the interpretive argument is weaker for the latter.
Compound Evidence Institute · CEI institutional document · https://compoundevidence.com/tools/coa-checker/ · retrieved 30 July 2026