Ontology

GO

Gene Ontology

The Gene Ontology project provides a controlled vocabulary to describe gene and gene product attributes in any organism.

annotationbiocurationbiological_processcellular_componentdataplantexpression datafunctiongene
A92

FAIR 48/48

Version 2026-07-26

Evaluated 26 Oct 2026

How scores work

Source & access

Homepagegeneontology.org Repositorygithub.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)go2026-07-2685,1694844825 Oct 2026
TIB Terminology Servicego2025-10-1051,84272018 Oct 2025
OBO Dashboardgo2026-07-2651,986——16 Sept 2026

Ontology IRI http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/go/extensions/go-plus.ofn
Version IRI http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/go/releases/2026-07-26/extensions/go-plus.ofn

Languages en

Imports from (24)
BFO BSPO CHEBI CL COB DDANAT ENVO FAO IAO IDO MOD NBO NCBITaxon OBA OBI OMO OPL PATO PO PR RO SO TAXRANK UBERON

Reused by (144)
ADO AMPHX APOLLO_SV BMONT CIDO CL CLO CLYH CTENO DDPHENO DIDEO DPO ECAO ECOCORE ECTO EMRO ENVO FBbt FBdv FLOPO FOVT FYPO GECKO GENO GSSO HP ICEO IDO INO MF MFOEM MONDO MP MRO NBO NCRO OAE OBA OBI OHD OHMI OMIT OMP OMRSE ONS ONTONEO OPL PAIN PATO PBPKO PCL PCO PHIPO PLANA PORO PPO PREFER RBO RO STATO TO TXPO UBERON UPHENO VO WBPhenotype XPO ZP AGRO AISM BAO BCGO BCIO BCO BSPO CARO CCO CEPH CHEMINF CHIRO CHMO CMPO COB COHO COVOC DRON EC ECO EFO ENM EPIO EUPATH EXMO FBbi FOODON GALLONT GENEPIO GEXO HCAO HGNC hgnc.genegroup HTN ICO IDOCOVID19 IDOMAL MAXO MCO MFMO MFOMD MICRO MIRO MPIO MSIO OBCS OBIB OGSF OHPI OMIABIS ONE OOSTT OPMI ORNASEQ PDRO PECO PLANP PO PR PRIDE PROCO PSDO PSO PW RETO REXO SEPIO SLSO SWO TAO UPA VALUESETS VBO VSAO WBbt WBls

Logical consistency
consistent · 0 unsatisfiable
OWL 2 DL
no
ROBOT report
0 errors · 3 warnings · 8 info
OBO principles
FP01FP02FP03FP04FP05FP06FP07FP08FP09FP11FP12FP16FP20
Axioms
608,324 · 0.09% entities reused

Also registered as
aberowl: GO agroportal: GO bioportal: GO fairsharing: FAIRsharing.6xq0ee obofoundry: go ols: go ontobee: GO tib.ts: go wikidata.entity: Q135085

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:10.1093/nar/gkaf1292+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 24: bfo, bspo, chebi, cl, cob, ddanat, envo, fao…+4
R Reusable FAIR12/12
  • Clear license (R1.1)CC BY 4.0+5
  • Release provenance (R1.2)2026-07-26 (version IRI in the artefact)+4
  • Community standards (R1.3)OBO principles: 11/13 checks pass+3
Q Ontology consistency & quality18/20
  • 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 errors0 errors+2
  • ROBOT report: warning density3 warnings / 51986 classes = 0.00+1
  • Pitfall scan: no critical pitfallsno pitfall scan yet; ROBOT report has 0 errors+1
M Maintenance12/16
  • Recency2026-10-25 → 0.0 months (≤ 3 months)+10
  • Release cadence (12 months)1 release (OLS version IRI)+2
U Community adoption14/16
  • Documented adopting projects6 projects+5
  • Reused by other ontologies144: ado, amphx, apollo_sv, bmont, cido, cl…+4
  • Community signalmax(stars 255 → 4, citations 3506 → 5)+5
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 48/48 · earned 92/100 = 92/100 → grade A

Community adoption 6

  • SynGO

    Synaptic annotations built on GO terms

    Curated by SchemaScope
  • geneontology.org

    The GO ontology is used by the GO consortium for functional annotation of genes

    Source: OBO Foundry registry
  • uniprot.org

    Uniprot uses GO to show the function of proteins

    Source: OBO Foundry registry
  • reactome.org

    Reactome annotates activities, pathways, and cellular localization using GO

    Source: OBO Foundry registry
  • alliancegenome.org

    The Alliance of Genome Resources uses GO for model organism gene function annotation

    Source: OBO Foundry registry
  • rhea-db.org

    Rhea uses GO to describe individual biochemical reactions

    Source: OBO Foundry registry

Know a project that uses GO? 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 UTC92 A482026-07-2685,169JSON

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)geneontology.org26 Oct 2026, 02:58 UTC
Repository link check (HTTP 200)github.com26 Oct 2026, 02:58 UTC
Download link check (HTTP 200)purl.obolibrary.org26 Oct 2026, 02:58 UTC
Artefact header (version IRI)current.geneontology.org26 Oct 2026, 02:58 UTC
Git refs (commit 325856e)github.com26 Oct 2026, 02:58 UTC
GitHub repository statisticsapi.github.com26 Oct 2026, 02:58 UTC
OLS classes, imports, version & releaseebi.ac.uk26 Oct 2026, 02:58 UTC
OBO Foundry status, license & usagesobofoundry.org26 Oct 2026, 02:37 UTC
TIB Terminology Service metricsservice.tib.eu26 Oct 2026, 02:58 UTC
Bioregistry mappings, dependencies & reusebioregistry.io26 Oct 2026, 02:58 UTC
OBO Dashboard (checked 16 Sept 2026)dashboard.obofoundry.org26 Oct 2026, 02:37 UTC
Crossref citations (doi:10.1093/nar/gkaf1292)api.crossref.org26 Oct 2026, 02:58 UTC
Crossref citations (doi:10.1093/nar/gkaa1113)api.crossref.org26 Oct 2026, 02:58 UTC

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

How to cite