Ontology

ECTO

Environmental conditions, treatments and exposures ontology

ECTO describes exposures to experimental treatments of plants and model organisms (e.g. exposures to modification of diet, lighting levels, temperature); exposures of humans or any other organisms to stressors through a variety of routes, for purposes of public health, environmental monitoring etc, stimuli, natural and experimental, any kind of environmental condition or change in condition that can be experienced by an organism or population of organisms on earth.

environmental scienceexposureoboontology

A85

FAIR 48/48

Version 2026-07-28

Evaluated 26 Oct 2026

How scores work

Source & access

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

homepage github.com HTTP 200
repository github.com HTTP 200
download purl.obolibrary.org HTTP 200

Portals & registries

Source	ID	Version	Classes	Properties	Individuals	Loaded
OLS (EMBL-EBI)	`ecto`	2026-07-28	19,657	235	18	25 Oct 2026
OBO Dashboard	`ecto`	2026-07-28	8,415	—	—	16 Sept 2026

Ontology IRI http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ecto.owl
Version IRI http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ecto/releases/2026-07-28/ecto.owl

Languages de de-at en en-br en-us es fr gsw it nah swg zh

Imports from (18)
BFO CHEBI ENVO ExO FOODON GO IAO MAXO NBO NCBITaxon NCIT OMO ONS OPMI PATO RO UBERON XCO

Reused by (8)
MONDO OHD COHO EFO EUPATH GENEPIO PRIDE VALUESETS

Logical consistency: consistent · 0 unsatisfiable
OWL 2 DL: yes
ROBOT report: 0 errors · 1 warnings · 0 info
OBO principles: FP01FP02FP03FP04FP05FP06FP07FP08FP09FP11FP12FP16FP20
Axioms: 38,045 · 46.27% entities reused

Also registered as
aberowl: ECTO agroportal: ECTO bioportal: ECTO fairsharing: FAIRsharing.6b77ac obofoundry: ecto ols: ecto ontobee: ECTO wikidata.entity: Q113012651

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:10.1186/s13326-023-00283-x+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, OBO+5
Semantic-web IRIs (I2)OWL, OBO+3
References other vocabularies (I3)imports 18: bfo, chebi, envo, exo, foodon, go, iao, maxo…+4

R Reusable FAIR12/12

Clear license (R1.1)CC0 1.0+5
Release provenance (R1.2)2026-07-28 (version IRI in the artefact)+4
Community standards (R1.3)OBO principles: 12/13 checks pass+3

Q Ontology consistency & quality20/20

Logical consistencyconsistent, 0 unsatisfiable classes (OBO Dashboard)+10
OWL 2 DL profilein OWL 2 DL+2
Upper-ontology alignmentimports BFO+3
Standard relations (RO)imports RO+1
ROBOT report: no errors0 errors+2
ROBOT report: warning density1 warnings / 8415 classes = 0.00+1
Pitfall scan: no critical pitfallsno pitfall scan yet; ROBOT report has 0 errors+1

M Maintenance13/16

Recency2026-09-03 → 1.7 months (≤ 3 months)+10
Release cadence (12 months)3 releases (GitHub releases)+3

U Community adoption4/16

Documented adopting projects0 projects0
Reused by other ontologies8: mondo, ohd, coho, efo, eupath, genepio…+2
Community signalmax(stars 40 → 2, citations 14 → 1)+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 48/48 · earned 85/100 = 85/100 → grade A

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.

Run	Score	FAIR	Version evaluated	Terms	Snapshot
26 Oct 2026, 03:31 UTC	85 A	48	2026-07-28	19,657	JSON

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”.

Fact	Source	Retrieved
Homepage link check (HTTP 200)	github.com	26 Oct 2026, 02:53 UTC
Repository link check (HTTP 200)	github.com	26 Oct 2026, 02:53 UTC
Download link check (HTTP 200)	purl.obolibrary.org	26 Oct 2026, 02:53 UTC
Artefact header (version IRI)	raw.githubusercontent.com	26 Oct 2026, 02:53 UTC
Git refs (commit dfb9e55, latest tag v2026-07-28)	github.com	26 Oct 2026, 02:53 UTC
GitHub repository statistics	api.github.com	26 Oct 2026, 02:53 UTC
OLS classes, imports, version & release	ebi.ac.uk	26 Oct 2026, 02:53 UTC
OBO Foundry status, license & usages	obofoundry.org	26 Oct 2026, 02:37 UTC
Bioregistry mappings, dependencies & reuse	bioregistry.io	26 Oct 2026, 02:53 UTC
OBO Dashboard (checked 16 Sept 2026)	dashboard.obofoundry.org	26 Oct 2026, 02:37 UTC
Crossref citations (doi:10.1186/s13326-023-00283-x)	api.crossref.org	26 Oct 2026, 02:53 UTC