Ontology

BIOLINK

BioLink Model

A high level datamodel of biological entities (genes, diseases, phenotypes, pathways, individuals, substances, etc) and their associations.

ontology
C55

FAIR 35/48

Version v4.4.6

Evaluated 26 Oct 2026

How scores work

Source & access

Homepagebiolink.github.io Repositorygithub.com DownloadCanonical file / PURL Browse in OLSEMBL-EBI Ontology Lookup ServiceBrowse in BioPortalNCBO BioPortal

Portals & registries

SourceIDVersionClassesPropertiesIndividualsLoaded
OLS (EMBL-EBI)biolink—701583025 Oct 2026

Ontology IRI https://w3id.org/biolink/vocab/.owl.ttl

Languages en

Also registered as
aberowl: BIOLINK bioportal: BIOLINK ols: biolink

Automated evaluation

F Findable FAIR8/12
  • Persistent identifier (F1)w3id.org+4
  • Indexed in services (F4)3: OLS, BioPortal, Bioregistry+4
  • Citable reference (F2)no reference publication listed0
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 FAIR8/12
  • Formal machine-readable format (I1)OWL, RDF+5
  • Semantic-web IRIs (I2)OWL, RDF+3
  • References other vocabularies (I3)no imported vocabularies found0
R Reusable FAIR7/12
  • Clear license (R1.1)CC0 1.0+5
  • Release provenance (R1.2)v4.4.6 (latest GitHub release); not declared inside the artefact+2
  • Community standards (R1.3)no independent compliance report (not on the OBO Dashboard)0
Q Ontology consistency & quality0/20
  • Logical consistencynever checked by a reasoner0
  • OWL 2 DL profileprofile not checked0
  • Upper-ontology alignmentno BFO/COB/DOLCE import found0
  • Standard relations (RO)does not import the Relation Ontology0
  • 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 Maintenance16/16
  • Recency2026-10-25 → 0.0 months (≤ 3 months)+10
  • Release cadence (12 months)15 releases (GitHub releases)+6
U Community adoption4/16
  • Documented adopting projects0 projects0
  • Reused by other ontologies00
  • Community signalmax(stars 267 → 4, citations 0 → 0)+4
P Penalties (inactivity & inconsistency)0
  • Time since last activity0.0 years → 4 × max(0, 0.0 − 1)0
  • Inactive statusnot archived, legacy or inactive0
  • Consistencynot yet checked by a reasoner0

FAIR subtotal 35/48 · earned 55/100 = 55/100 → 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 UTC55 C35v4.4.6701JSON

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)biolink.github.io26 Oct 2026, 02:40 UTC
Repository link check (HTTP 200)github.com26 Oct 2026, 02:40 UTC
Download link check (HTTP 200)w3id.org26 Oct 2026, 02:40 UTC
Artefact headerbiolink.github.io26 Oct 2026, 02:40 UTC
Git refs (commit 8e48ed1, latest tag v4.4.6)github.com26 Oct 2026, 02:40 UTC
GitHub repository statisticsapi.github.com26 Oct 2026, 02:40 UTC
OLS classes, imports, version & releaseebi.ac.uk26 Oct 2026, 02:40 UTC
Bioregistry mappings, dependencies & reusebioregistry.io26 Oct 2026, 02:40 UTC

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