Ontology
FALDO
Feature Annotation Location Description Ontology
It is a simple ontology to describe sequence feature positions and regions as found in GFF3, DBBJ, EMBL, GenBank files, UniProt, and many other bioinformatics resources
Source & access
- homepage biohackathon.org HTTP 200
- repository github.com HTTP 200
- download aber-owl.net HTTP 200
Portals & registries
Also registered as
aberowl: FALDO agroportal: FALDO bioportal: FALDO fairsharing: FAIRsharing.haxp7g
Automated evaluation
- Persistent identifier (F1)no PURL / w3id / DOI for the artefact0
- Indexed in services (F4)3: BioPortal, Bioregistry, FAIRsharing+4
- Citable reference (F2)doi:10.1186/s13326-016-0067-z+3
- Homepage reachableHTTP 200+3
- Artefact retrievable over HTTP(S) (A1)download HTTP 200+6
- Metadata persists in a registry (A2)Bioregistry+3
- Formal machine-readable format (I1)OWL+5
- Semantic-web IRIs (I2)OWL+3
- References other vocabularies (I3)no imported vocabularies found0
- Clear license (R1.1)CC0 1.0+5
- Release provenance (R1.2)Created at the Biohackathon 2012 and 2013 (version info in the artefact)+4
- Community standards (R1.3)no independent compliance report (not on the OBO Dashboard)0
- 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
- Recency2026-05-19 → 5.3 months (≤ 6 months)+8
- Release cadence (12 months)0 releases0
- Documented adopting projects0 projects0
- Reused by other ontologies00
- Community signalmax(stars 34 → 2, citations 22 → 1)+2
- Time since last activity0.4 years → 4 × max(0, 0.4 − 1)0
- Inactive statusnot archived, legacy or inactive0
- Consistencynot yet checked by a reasoner0
FAIR subtotal 36/48 · earned 46/100 = 46/100 → grade D
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 | 46 D | 36 | Created at the Biohackathon 2012 and 2013 | — | 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) | biohackathon.org | 26 Oct 2026, 02:55 UTC |
| Repository link check (HTTP 200) | github.com | 26 Oct 2026, 02:55 UTC |
| Download link check (HTTP 200) | aber-owl.net | 26 Oct 2026, 02:55 UTC |
| Artefact header (version info) | aber-owl.net | 26 Oct 2026, 02:55 UTC |
| Git refs (commit cd22e84) | github.com | 26 Oct 2026, 02:55 UTC |
| GitHub repository statistics | api.github.com | 26 Oct 2026, 02:55 UTC |
| Bioregistry mappings, dependencies & reuse | bioregistry.io | 26 Oct 2026, 02:55 UTC |
| Crossref citations (doi:10.1186/s13326-016-0067-z) | api.crossref.org | 26 Oct 2026, 02:55 UTC |
Run 2026-10-26T02-37-38Z · evaluator v2.0.0 · rubric v3.4 · entry.json · run snapshot
How to cite
- FALDO: a semantic standard for describing the location of nucleotide and protein feature annotation (2016) · doi:10.1186/s13326-016-0067-z · 22 citations