Ontology

HANCESTRO

Human Ancestry Ontology

Human ancestry ontology for the NHGRI GWAS Catalog

demographicsgenome-wide association studyhuman geneticsoboontologypopulation genetics
B77

FAIR 48/48

Version 2025-10-14

Evaluated 26 Oct 2026

How scores work

Source & access

Homepageebispot.github.io 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)hancestro2025-10-141,3101231925 Oct 2026
OBO Dashboardhancestro2025-10-14909——9 Dec 2025

Ontology IRI http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/hancestro.owl
Version IRI http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/hancestro/releases/2025-10-14/hancestro.owl

Languages en

Imports from (8)
AfPO BFO GAZ IAO NCIT OBI OMO RO

Reused by (8)
AfPO FOODON COVOC EFO GENEPIO OBIB PRIDE RBO

Logical consistency
consistent · 0 unsatisfiable
OWL 2 DL
yes
ROBOT report
0 errors · 425 warnings · 0 info
OBO principles
FP01FP02FP03FP04FP05FP06FP07FP08FP09FP11FP12FP16FP20
Axioms
4,061 · 31.87% entities reused

Also registered as
aberowl: HANCESTRO bioportal: HANCESTRO fairsharing: FAIRsharing.rja8qp obofoundry: hancestro ols: hancestro ontobee: HANCESTRO wikidata.entity: Q81661647

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/s13059-018-1396-2+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+5
  • Semantic-web IRIs (I2)OWL+3
  • References other vocabularies (I3)imports 8: afpo, bfo, gaz, iao, ncit, obi, omo, ro+4
R Reusable FAIR12/12
  • Clear license (R1.1)CC BY 4.0+5
  • Release provenance (R1.2)2025-10-14 (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 density425 warnings / 909 classes = 0.470
  • Pitfall scan: no critical pitfallsno pitfall scan yet; ROBOT report has 0 errors+1
M Maintenance2/16
  • Recency2025-10-14 → 12.4 months (≤ 2 years)+2
  • Release cadence (12 months)0 releases (GitHub releases)0
U Community adoption8/16
  • Documented adopting projects3 projects+4
  • Reused by other ontologies8: afpo, foodon, covoc, efo, genepio, obib…+2
  • Community signalmax(stars 7 → 1, citations 220 → 2)+2
P Penalties (inactivity & inconsistency)0
  • Time since last activity1.0 years → 4 × max(0, 1.0 − 1)0
  • Inactive statusnot archived, legacy or inactive0
  • Consistencyconsistent, no unsatisfiable classes0

FAIR subtotal 48/48 · earned 77/100 = 77/100 → grade B

Community adoption 3

  • ebi.ac.uk

    The Experimental Factor Ontology (EFO) provides a systematic description of many experimental variables available in EBI databases, and for external projects such as the NHGRI GWAS catalogue. It combines parts of several biological ontol…

    Source: OBO Foundry registry
  • genepio.org

    The Genomic Epidemiology Ontology (GenEpiO) covers vocabulary necessary to identify, document and research foodborne pathogens and associated outbreaks.

    Source: OBO Foundry registry
  • foodon.org

    FoodOn (http://foodon.org) is a consortium-driven project to build a comprehensive and easily accessible global farm-to-fork ontology about food, that accurately and consistently describes foods commonly known in cultures from around the…

    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 UTC77 B482025-10-141,310JSON

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)ebispot.github.io26 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)raw.githubusercontent.com26 Oct 2026, 02:58 UTC
Git refs (commit 69bf035, latest tag v2025-10-14)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
Bioregistry mappings, dependencies & reusebioregistry.io26 Oct 2026, 02:58 UTC
OBO Dashboard (checked 9 Dec 2025)dashboard.obofoundry.org26 Oct 2026, 02:37 UTC
Crossref citations (doi:10.1186/s13059-018-1396-2)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

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