Ontology

biomodels.kisao

Kinetic Simulation Algorithm Ontology

The Kinetic Simulation Algorithm Ontology (KiSAO) is an ontology that describes simulation algorithms and methods used for biological kinetic models, and the relationships between them. This provides a means to unambiguously refer to simulation algorithms when describing a simulation experiment.

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C63

FAIR 40/48

Version 2.34

Evaluated 26 Oct 2026

How scores work

Source & access

Homepagegithub.com DownloadCanonical file / PURL Browse in OLSEMBL-EBI Ontology Lookup ServiceBrowse in BioPortalNCBO BioPortalBrowse in OBO FoundryOBO Foundry registry

Portals & registries

SourceIDVersionClassesPropertiesIndividualsLoaded
OLS (EMBL-EBI)kisao2.3452519025 Oct 2026
OBO Dashboardkisao—0——11 Dec 2025

Ontology IRI http://www.biomodels.net/kisao/KISAO#

Languages de en end fr

Logical consistency
consistent · 0 unsatisfiable
OWL 2 DL
no
ROBOT report
—
OBO principles
FP01FP02FP03FP04FP05FP06FP07FP08FP09FP11FP12FP16FP20

Also registered as
aberowl: KISAO bioportal: KISAO fairsharing: FAIRsharing.jcg19w obofoundry: kisao ols: kisao ontobee: KISAO

Automated evaluation

F Findable FAIR12/12
  • Persistent identifier (F1)purl.obolibrary.org+4
  • Indexed in services (F4)5: OLS, BioPortal, OBO Foundry, Bioregistry, FAIRsharing+5
  • Citable reference (F2)doi:10.1038/msb.2011.77+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)OBO Foundry, Bioregistry+3
I Interoperable FAIR8/12
  • Formal machine-readable format (I1)OWL+5
  • Semantic-web IRIs (I2)OWL+3
  • References other vocabularies (I3)no imported vocabularies found0
R Reusable FAIR8/12
  • Clear license (R1.1)Artistic-2.0 (not a recognised open license)+2
  • Release provenance (R1.2)2.34 (version info in the artefact)+4
  • Community standards (R1.3)OBO principles: 9/13 checks pass+2
Q Ontology consistency & quality10/20
  • Logical consistencyconsistent, 0 unsatisfiable classes (OBO Dashboard)+10
  • OWL 2 DL profileoutside OWL 2 DL0
  • 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 Maintenance7/16
  • Recency2026-03-31 → 6.8 months (≤ 1 year)+5
  • Release cadence (12 months)1 release (GitHub releases)+2
U Community adoption6/16
  • Documented adopting projects4 projects+4
  • Reused by other ontologies00
  • Community signalmax(stars 12 → 1, citations 262 → 2)+2
P Penalties (inactivity & inconsistency)0
  • Time since last activity0.6 years → 4 × max(0, 0.6 − 1)0
  • Inactive statusnot archived, legacy or inactive0
  • Consistencyconsistent, no unsatisfiable classes0

FAIR subtotal 40/48 · earned 63/100 = 63/100 → grade C

Community adoption 4

  • sed-ml.org

    The Simulation Experiment Description Markup Language (SED-ML) is a language for describing simulations and visualizations of their results.

    Source: OBO Foundry registry
  • biosimulations.org

    BioSimulations is a repository of biosimulation projects.

    Source: OBO Foundry registry
  • run.biosimulations.org

    runBioSimulations is a web application for execution biological simulations.

    Source: OBO Foundry registry
  • biosimulators.org

    BioSimulators is a registry of biosimulation tools.

    Source: OBO Foundry registry

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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 UTC63 C402.34525JSON

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)github.com26 Oct 2026, 02:40 UTC
Repository link check (HTTP 200)github.com26 Oct 2026, 02:40 UTC
Download link check (HTTP 200)purl.obolibrary.org26 Oct 2026, 02:40 UTC
Artefact header (version info)raw.githubusercontent.com26 Oct 2026, 02:40 UTC
Git refs (commit f0417f8, latest tag 2.35)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
OBO Foundry status, license & usagesobofoundry.org26 Oct 2026, 02:37 UTC
Bioregistry mappings, dependencies & reusebioregistry.io26 Oct 2026, 02:40 UTC
OBO Dashboard (checked 11 Dec 2025)dashboard.obofoundry.org26 Oct 2026, 02:37 UTC
Crossref citations (doi:10.1038/msb.2011.77)api.crossref.org26 Oct 2026, 02:40 UTC

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

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