Ontology

HGNC

HUGO Gene Nomenclature Committee

The HGNC (HUGO Gene Nomenclature Committee) provides an approved gene name and symbol (short-form abbreviation) for each known human gene. All approved symbols are stored in the HGNC database, and each symbol is unique. HGNC identifiers refer to records in the HGNC symbol database.

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C55

FAIR 43/48

Version 2026-02-06

Evaluated 26 Oct 2026

How scores work

Source & access

Homepagegenenames.org DownloadCanonical file / PURL Browse in OLSEMBL-EBI Ontology Lookup ServiceBrowse in BioPortalNCBO BioPortal

Portals & registries

SourceIDVersionClassesPropertiesIndividualsLoaded
OLS (EMBL-EBI)hgnc2026-02-06163,22933025 Oct 2026

Ontology IRI https://w3id.org/biopragmatics/resources/hgnc/hgnc.ofn
Version IRI https://w3id.org/biopragmatics/resources/hgnc/2026-02-06/hgnc.ofn

Languages en

Imports from (9)
EC GO hgnc.genegroup IAO NCBITaxon OMO PR RO SO

Also registered as
aberowl: HGNC bioportal: HGNC fairsharing: FAIRsharing.amcv1e ols: hgnc

Automated evaluation

F Findable FAIR12/12
  • Persistent identifier (F1)w3id.org+4
  • Indexed in services (F4)4: OLS, BioPortal, Bioregistry, FAIRsharing+5
  • Citable reference (F2)doi:10.15252/msb.202211325+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)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 9: ec, go, hgnc.genegroup, iao, ncbitaxon, omo, pr, ro…+4
R Reusable FAIR7/12
  • Clear license (R1.1)CC0 1.0+5
  • Release provenance (R1.2)2026-02-06 (OLS); not declared inside the artefact+2
  • Community standards (R1.3)no independent compliance report (not on the OBO Dashboard)0
Q Ontology consistency & quality1/20
  • Logical consistencynever checked by a reasoner0
  • OWL 2 DL profileprofile not checked0
  • Upper-ontology alignmentno BFO/COB/DOLCE import found0
  • Standard relations (RO)imports RO+1
  • 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
M Maintenance7/16
  • Recency2026-02-06 → 8.6 months (≤ 1 year)+5
  • Release cadence (12 months)1 release (OLS version IRI)+2
U Community adoption4/16
  • Documented adopting projects0 projects0
  • Reused by other ontologies00
  • Community signalmax(stars 0 → 0, citations 363 → 4)+4
P Penalties (inactivity & inconsistency)0
  • Time since last activity0.7 years → 4 × max(0, 0.7 − 1)0
  • Inactive statusnot archived, legacy or inactive0
  • Consistencynot yet checked by a reasoner0

FAIR subtotal 43/48 · earned 55/100 = 55/100 → grade C

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.

RunScoreFAIRVersion evaluatedTermsSnapshot
26 Oct 2026, 03:31 UTC55 C432026-02-06163,229JSON

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)genenames.org26 Oct 2026, 02:59 UTC
Download link check (HTTP 200)w3id.org26 Oct 2026, 02:59 UTC
Artefact headerraw.githubusercontent.com26 Oct 2026, 02:59 UTC
OLS classes, imports, version & releaseebi.ac.uk26 Oct 2026, 02:59 UTC
Bioregistry mappings, dependencies & reusebioregistry.io26 Oct 2026, 02:59 UTC
Crossref citations (doi:10.15252/msb.202211325)api.crossref.org26 Oct 2026, 02:59 UTC
Crossref citations (doi:10.1093/nar/gkaa980)api.crossref.org26 Oct 2026, 02:59 UTC

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

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