Ontology

CHEMINF

Chemical Information Ontology

The chemical information ontology (cheminf) describes information entities about chemical entities. It provides qualitative and quantitative attributes to richly describe chemicals.

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B76

FAIR 47/48

Version 2.1.0

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)cheminf2.1.02,1415382125 Oct 2026
TIB Terminology Servicecheminf2.1.08542042024 Feb 2025
OBO Dashboardcheminf—0——9 Dec 2025

Ontology IRI http://semanticchemistry.github.io/semanticchemistry/ontology/cheminf.owl

Languages en

Imports from (12)
APOLLO_SV BFO CHEBI COB GO IAO OBI OMO PATO PR RO UO

Reused by (1)
PROCO

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

Also registered as
aberowl: CHEMINF bioportal: CHEMINF fairsharing: FAIRsharing.sjhvyy obofoundry: cheminf ols: cheminf ontobee: CHEMINF tib.ts: cheminf wikidata.entity: Q55118298

Automated evaluation

F Findable FAIR12/12
  • Persistent identifier (F1)purl.obolibrary.org+4
  • Indexed in services (F4)6: OLS, TIB, BioPortal, OBO Foundry, Bioregistry, FAIRsharing+5
  • Citable reference (F2)doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0025513+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 FAIR12/12
  • Formal machine-readable format (I1)OWL+5
  • Semantic-web IRIs (I2)OWL+3
  • References other vocabularies (I3)imports 12: apollo_sv, bfo, chebi, cob, go, iao, obi, omo…+4
R Reusable FAIR11/12
  • Clear license (R1.1)CC0 1.0+5
  • Release provenance (R1.2)2.1.0 (version info in the artefact)+4
  • Community standards (R1.3)OBO principles: 10/13 checks pass+2
Q Ontology consistency & quality14/20
  • Logical consistencyconsistent, 0 unsatisfiable classes (OBO Dashboard)+10
  • OWL 2 DL profileoutside OWL 2 DL0
  • Upper-ontology alignmentimports BFO, COB+3
  • 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
  • Recency2026-09-21 → 1.1 months (≤ 3 months)+10
  • Release cadence (12 months)0 releases0
U Community adoption5/16
  • Documented adopting projects2 projects+2
  • Reused by other ontologies1: proco+1
  • Community signalmax(stars 23 → 1, citations 111 → 2)+2
P Penalties (inactivity & inconsistency)0
  • Time since last activity0.1 years → 4 × max(0, 0.1 − 1)0
  • Inactive statusnot archived, legacy or inactive0
  • Consistencyconsistent, no unsatisfiable classes0

FAIR subtotal 47/48 · earned 76/100 = 76/100 → grade B

Community adoption 2

  • ebi.ac.uk

    ChEMBL uses CHEMINF in the RDF download

    Source: OBO Foundry registry
  • pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

    PubChem uses CHEMINF in their RDF representation

    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 UTC76 B472.1.02,141JSON

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, 02:43 UTC
Repository link check (HTTP 200)github.com26 Oct 2026, 02:43 UTC
Download link check (HTTP 200)purl.obolibrary.org26 Oct 2026, 02:43 UTC
Artefact header (version info)raw.githubusercontent.com26 Oct 2026, 02:43 UTC
Git refs (commit be07b83)github.com26 Oct 2026, 02:43 UTC
GitHub repository statisticsapi.github.com26 Oct 2026, 02:43 UTC
OLS classes, imports, version & releaseebi.ac.uk26 Oct 2026, 02:43 UTC
OBO Foundry status, license & usagesobofoundry.org26 Oct 2026, 02:37 UTC
TIB Terminology Service metricsservice.tib.eu26 Oct 2026, 02:43 UTC
Bioregistry mappings, dependencies & reusebioregistry.io26 Oct 2026, 02:43 UTC
OBO Dashboard (checked 9 Dec 2025)dashboard.obofoundry.org26 Oct 2026, 02:37 UTC
Crossref citations (doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0025513)api.crossref.org26 Oct 2026, 02:43 UTC

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

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