Ontology

BAO

BioAssay Ontology

The BioAssay Ontology (BAO) describes chemical biology screening assays and their results including high-throughput screening (HTS) data for the purpose of categorizing assays and data analysis.

assaybiochemistrybiological_processbiomedical sciencecellchemical and environmental engineeringchemical entitydataplant
C56

FAIR 41/48

Version http://www.bioassayontology…

Evaluated 26 Oct 2026

How scores work

Source & access

Homepagebioassayontology.org Repositorygithub.com DownloadCanonical file / PURL Browse in OLSEMBL-EBI Ontology Lookup ServiceBrowse in BioPortalNCBO BioPortal

Portals & registries

SourceIDVersionClassesPropertiesIndividualsLoaded
OLS (EMBL-EBI)bao2.8.198,936462125 Oct 2026
TIB Terminology Servicebao2.8.67,92033016 Oct 2025

Ontology IRI http://www.bioassayontology.org/bao/bao_complete.owl
Version IRI http://www.bioassayontology.org/bao/bao_complete.owl

Languages en fr

Imports from (14)
CHEBI CLO DOID EFO GO IAO NCBITaxon NCIT OBI OMO PATO RO UBERON UO

Reused by (7)
EFO ENM GENEPIO NGBO ONTONEO PRIDE VALUESETS

Also registered as
aberowl: BAO bioportal: BAO fairsharing: FAIRsharing.mye76w ols: bao ontobee: BAO tib.ts: bao

Automated evaluation

F Findable FAIR8/12
  • Persistent identifier (F1)no PURL / w3id / DOI for the artefact0
  • Indexed in services (F4)5: OLS, TIB, BioPortal, Bioregistry, FAIRsharing+5
  • Citable reference (F2)doi:10.1186/2041-1480-5-s1-s5+3
A Accessible FAIR12/12
  • Homepage reachableHTTP 200+3
  • Artefact retrievable over HTTP(S) (A1)download HTTP 200+6
  • Metadata persists in a registry (A2)Bioregistry+3
I Interoperable FAIR12/12
  • Formal machine-readable format (I1)OWL+5
  • Semantic-web IRIs (I2)OWL+3
  • References other vocabularies (I3)imports 14: chebi, clo, doid, efo, go, iao, ncbitaxon, ncit…+4
R Reusable FAIR9/12
  • Clear license (R1.1)CC BY-SA 4.0+5
  • Release provenance (R1.2)http://www.bioassayontology.org/bao/bao_complete.owl (version IRI in the artefact)+4
  • Community standards (R1.3)no independent compliance report (not on the OBO Dashboard)0
Q Ontology consistency & quality1/20
  • Logical consistencynever checked by a reasoner0
  • OWL 2 DL profileprofile not checked0
  • Upper-ontology alignmentno BFO/COB/DOLCE import found0
  • Standard relations (RO)imports RO+1
  • ROBOT report: no errorsno ROBOT report available0
  • ROBOT report: warning densityno ROBOT report available0
  • Pitfall scan: no critical pitfallsno pitfall scan or ROBOT report yet0
M Maintenance10/16
  • Recency2026-05-06 → 5.7 months (≤ 6 months)+8
  • Release cadence (12 months)1 release (GitHub releases)+2
U Community adoption4/16
  • Documented adopting projects0 projects0
  • Reused by other ontologies7: efo, enm, genepio, ngbo, ontoneo, pride…+2
  • Community signalmax(stars 19 → 1, citations 77 → 2)+2
P Penalties (inactivity & inconsistency)0
  • Time since last activity0.5 years → 4 × max(0, 0.5 − 1)0
  • Inactive statusnot archived, legacy or inactive0
  • Consistencynot yet checked by a reasoner0

FAIR subtotal 41/48 · earned 56/100 = 56/100 → grade C

Community adoption 0

No adopting projects documented yet.

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History & changes 1 run

History starts with the first archived run; changes appear after the next evaluation.

RunScoreFAIRVersion evaluatedTermsSnapshot
26 Oct 2026, 03:31 UTC56 C41http://www.bioassayontology.org/bao/bao_complete.owl8,936JSON

Provenance

Every fact on this page was fetched automatically. Each row shows where it came from and when. If a source fails, the last good value is kept and marked “carried forward”.

FactSourceRetrieved
Homepage link check (HTTP 200)bioassayontology.org26 Oct 2026, 02:39 UTC
Repository link check (HTTP 200)github.com26 Oct 2026, 02:39 UTC
Download link check (HTTP 200)bioassayontology.org26 Oct 2026, 02:39 UTC
Artefact header (version IRI)bioassayontology.org26 Oct 2026, 02:39 UTC
Git refs (commit fa8efc1, latest tag v2.8.19)github.com26 Oct 2026, 02:39 UTC
GitHub repository statisticsapi.github.com26 Oct 2026, 02:39 UTC
OLS classes, imports, version & releaseebi.ac.uk26 Oct 2026, 02:39 UTC
TIB Terminology Service metricsservice.tib.eu26 Oct 2026, 02:39 UTC
Bioregistry mappings, dependencies & reusebioregistry.io26 Oct 2026, 02:39 UTC
Crossref citations (doi:10.1186/2041-1480-5-s1-s5)api.crossref.org26 Oct 2026, 02:39 UTC
Crossref citations (doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0049198)api.crossref.org26 Oct 2026, 02:39 UTC

Run 2026-10-26T02-37-38Z · evaluator v2.0.0 · rubric v3.4 · entry.json · run snapshot

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