Ontology

FBbi

Biological Imaging Methods Ontology

An ontology for the description of sample preparation, visualization, and imaging methods used in biomedical research.

assaybiomedical scienceexperimentimaginglife scienceoboontology
B84

FAIR 45/48

Version 2026-06-25

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)fbbi2026-06-256881552125 Oct 2026
OBO Dashboardfbbi2026-06-25663——18 Jul 2026

Ontology IRI http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/fbbi.owl
Version IRI http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/fbbi/releases/2026-06-25/fbbi.owl

Languages en

Imports from (8)
BFO GO IAO NCBITaxon OMO PATO RO UBERON

Reused by (3)
EFO PRIDE VALUESETS

Logical consistency
consistent · 0 unsatisfiable
OWL 2 DL
yes
ROBOT report
0 errors · 445 warnings · 1 info
OBO principles
FP01FP02FP03FP04FP05FP06FP07FP08FP09FP11FP12FP16FP20
Axioms
4,708 · 4.05% entities reused

Also registered as
aberowl: FBBI bioportal: FBbi fairsharing: FAIRsharing.ny3z9j obofoundry: fbbi ols: fbbi ontobee: FBbi wikidata.entity: Q81661618

Automated evaluation

F Findable FAIR9/12
  • Persistent identifier (F1)purl.obolibrary.org+4
  • Indexed in services (F4)5: OLS, BioPortal, OBO Foundry, Bioregistry, FAIRsharing+5
  • 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)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 8: bfo, go, iao, ncbitaxon, omo, pato, ro, uberon+4
R Reusable FAIR12/12
  • Clear license (R1.1)CC BY 4.0+5
  • Release provenance (R1.2)2026-06-25 (version IRI in the artefact)+4
  • Community standards (R1.3)OBO principles: 11/13 checks pass+3
Q Ontology consistency & quality19/20
  • 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 density445 warnings / 663 classes = 0.670
  • Pitfall scan: no critical pitfallsno pitfall scan yet; ROBOT report has 0 errors+1
M Maintenance13/16
  • Recency2026-10-16 → 0.3 months (≤ 3 months)+10
  • Release cadence (12 months)3 releases (GitHub releases)+3
U Community adoption7/16
  • Documented adopting projects3 projects+4
  • Reused by other ontologies3: efo, pride, valuesets+2
  • Community signalmax(stars 14 → 1, citations 0 → 0)+1
P Penalties (inactivity & inconsistency)0
  • Time since last activity0.0 years → 4 × max(0, 0.0 − 1)0
  • Inactive statusnot archived, legacy or inactive0
  • Consistencyconsistent, no unsatisfiable classes0

FAIR subtotal 45/48 · earned 84/100 = 84/100 → grade B

Community adoption 3

  • flybase.org

    FlyBase uses FBbi to annotate its image collection.

    Source: OBO Foundry registry
  • virtualflybrain.org

    Virtual Fly Brain uses FBbi to annotate images.

    Source: OBO Foundry registry
  • cellimagelibrary.org

    The Cell Image Library uses FBbi to annotate images.

    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 UTC84 B452026-06-25688JSON

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, 02:55 UTC
Repository link check (HTTP 200)github.com26 Oct 2026, 02:55 UTC
Download link check (HTTP 200)purl.obolibrary.org26 Oct 2026, 02:55 UTC
Artefact header (version IRI)release-assets.githubusercontent.com26 Oct 2026, 02:55 UTC
Git refs (commit cd2aaea, latest tag v2026-06-25)github.com26 Oct 2026, 02:55 UTC
GitHub repository statisticsapi.github.com26 Oct 2026, 02:55 UTC
OLS classes, imports, version & releaseebi.ac.uk26 Oct 2026, 02:55 UTC
OBO Foundry status, license & usagesobofoundry.org26 Oct 2026, 02:37 UTC
Bioregistry mappings, dependencies & reusebioregistry.io26 Oct 2026, 02:55 UTC
OBO Dashboard (checked 18 Jul 2026)dashboard.obofoundry.org26 Oct 2026, 02:37 UTC

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