Ontology

LABO

clinical LABoratory Ontology

LABO is an ontology of informational entities formalizing clinical laboratory tests prescriptions and reporting documents.

oboontology
D46

FAIR 47/48

Version 2021-06-08

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)labo2021-06-0816978025 Oct 2026
OBO Dashboardlabo2021-06-08101——9 Dec 2025

Ontology IRI http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/labo.owl
Version IRI http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/labo/2021-06-08/labo.owl

Languages en fr

Imports from (10)
BFO IAO NCBITaxon OBI OGMS OPMI PDRO RO OMIABIS OMRSE

Logical consistency
consistent · 0 unsatisfiable
OWL 2 DL
no
ROBOT report
64 errors · 21 warnings · 17 info
OBO principles
FP01FP02FP03FP04FP05FP06FP07FP08FP09FP11FP12FP16FP20
Axioms
420 · 37.98% entities reused

Also registered as
aberowl: LABO bioportal: LABO obofoundry: labo ols: labo ontobee: LABO wikidata.entity: Q81661673

Automated evaluation

F Findable FAIR12/12
  • Persistent identifier (F1)purl.obolibrary.org+4
  • Indexed in services (F4)4: OLS, BioPortal, OBO Foundry, Bioregistry+5
  • Citable reference (F2)doi:10.5281/zenodo.6522019+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 10: bfo, iao, ncbitaxon, obi, ogms, opmi, pdro, ro…+4
R Reusable FAIR11/12
  • Clear license (R1.1)CC BY 4.0+5
  • Release provenance (R1.2)2021-06-08 (version IRI in the artefact)+4
  • Community standards (R1.3)OBO principles: 8/13 checks pass+2
Q Ontology consistency & quality14/20
  • 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 errors64 errors0
  • ROBOT report: warning density21 warnings / 101 classes = 0.210
  • Pitfall scan: no critical pitfallsno pitfall scan yet; ROBOT report has 64 errors0
M Maintenance0/16
  • Recency2023-03-06 → 43.7 months (older / unknown)0
  • Release cadence (12 months)0 releases (GitHub releases)0
U Community adoption2/16
  • Documented adopting projects1 project+2
  • Reused by other ontologies00
  • Community signalmax(stars 2 → 0, citations 0 → 0)0
P Penalties (inactivity & inconsistency)-17
  • Time since last activity3.6 years → 4 × max(0, 3.6 − 1)-11
  • Inactive statusnot archived, legacy or inactive0
  • Consistencyconsistent, no unsatisfiable classes0
  • ROBOT report errors64 errors-6

FAIR subtotal 47/48 · earned 63/100 − 17 inactivity = 46/100 → grade D

Community adoption 1

  • griis.ca

    LABO is a part of a core ontological model of medical knowledge in the PARS3 data platform.

    Source: OBO Foundry registry

Know a project that uses LABO? 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 UTC46 D472021-06-08169JSON

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, 03:02 UTC
Repository link check (HTTP 200)github.com26 Oct 2026, 03:02 UTC
Download link check (HTTP 200)purl.obolibrary.org26 Oct 2026, 03:02 UTC
Artefact header (version IRI)raw.githubusercontent.com26 Oct 2026, 03:02 UTC
Git refs (commit b725641, latest tag v2020-02-06)github.com26 Oct 2026, 03:02 UTC
GitHub repository statisticsapi.github.com26 Oct 2026, 03:02 UTC
OLS classes, imports, version & releaseebi.ac.uk26 Oct 2026, 03:02 UTC
OBO Foundry status, license & usagesobofoundry.org26 Oct 2026, 02:37 UTC
Bioregistry mappings, dependencies & reusebioregistry.io26 Oct 2026, 03:02 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

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