Ontology

GECKO

Genomics Cohorts Knowledge Ontology

An ontology to represent genomics cohort attributes.

biospecimenexperimental measurementgenomicslife scienceoboontologystatistics
D47

FAIR 44/48

Version 2021-01-18

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)gecko2021-01-1815417025 Oct 2026
OBO Dashboardgecko2021-01-1890——9 Dec 2025

Ontology IRI http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/gecko.owl
Version IRI http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/gecko/releases/2021-01-18/gecko.owl

Languages en

Imports from (16)
BFO CMO EUPATH GO IAO MF MONDO OBI OGMS OMRSE PATO PCO PDRO RO STATO UBERON

Reused by (1)
ADO

Logical consistency
consistent · 0 unsatisfiable
OWL 2 DL
no
ROBOT report
0 errors · 4 warnings · 0 info
OBO principles
FP01FP02FP03FP04FP05FP06FP07FP08FP09FP11FP12FP16FP20
Axioms
426 · 33.01% entities reused

Also registered as
aberowl: GECKO bioportal: GECKO fairsharing: FAIRsharing.3da56b obofoundry: gecko ols: gecko ontobee: GECKO wikidata.entity: Q113012662

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+5
  • Semantic-web IRIs (I2)OWL+3
  • References other vocabularies (I3)imports 16: bfo, cmo, eupath, go, iao, mf, mondo, obi…+4
R Reusable FAIR11/12
  • Clear license (R1.1)CC BY 4.0+5
  • Release provenance (R1.2)2021-01-18 (version IRI in the artefact)+4
  • Community standards (R1.3)OBO principles: 10/13 checks pass+2
Q Ontology consistency & quality18/20
  • Logical consistencyconsistent, 0 unsatisfiable classes (OBO Dashboard)+10
  • OWL 2 DL profileoutside OWL 2 DL0
  • Upper-ontology alignmentimports BFO+3
  • Standard relations (RO)imports RO+1
  • ROBOT report: no errors0 errors+2
  • ROBOT report: warning density4 warnings / 90 classes = 0.04+1
  • Pitfall scan: no critical pitfallsno pitfall scan yet; ROBOT report has 0 errors+1
M Maintenance0/16
  • Recency2021-01-20 → 69.1 months (older / unknown)0
  • Release cadence (12 months)0 releases (GitHub releases)0
U Community adoption4/16
  • Documented adopting projects1 project+2
  • Reused by other ontologies1: ado+1
  • Community signalmax(stars 7 → 1, citations 0 → 0)+1
P Penalties (inactivity & inconsistency)-19
  • Time since last activity5.8 years → 4 × max(0, 5.8 − 1)-19
  • Inactive statusnot archived, legacy or inactive0
  • Consistencyconsistent, no unsatisfiable classes0

FAIR subtotal 44/48 · earned 66/100 − 19 inactivity = 47/100 → grade D

Community adoption 1

  • ihccglobal.org

    IHCC uses GECKO to standardize data from various cohorts for the IHCC cohort browser

    Source: OBO Foundry registry

Know a project that uses GECKO? Suggest it.

History & changes 1 run

History starts with the first archived run; changes appear after the next evaluation.

RunScoreFAIRVersion evaluatedTermsSnapshot
26 Oct 2026, 03:31 UTC47 D442021-01-18154JSON

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, 02:56 UTC
Repository link check (HTTP 200)github.com26 Oct 2026, 02:56 UTC
Download link check (HTTP 200)purl.obolibrary.org26 Oct 2026, 02:56 UTC
Artefact header (version IRI)raw.githubusercontent.com26 Oct 2026, 02:56 UTC
Git refs (commit 2feeb6a, latest tag v2020-12-03)github.com26 Oct 2026, 02:56 UTC
GitHub repository statisticsapi.github.com26 Oct 2026, 02:56 UTC
OLS classes, imports, version & releaseebi.ac.uk26 Oct 2026, 02:56 UTC
OBO Foundry status, license & usagesobofoundry.org26 Oct 2026, 02:37 UTC
Bioregistry mappings, dependencies & reusebioregistry.io26 Oct 2026, 02:56 UTC
OBO Dashboard (checked 9 Dec 2025)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