Ontology · Legacy

MAO

Multiple alignment

MAO is an ontology for multiple alignments of nucleic and protein sequences. MAO is designed to improve interoperation and data sharing between different alignment protocols for the construction of a high quality, reliable multiple alignment in order to facilitate knowledge extraction and the presentation of the most pertinent information to the biologist.

alignmentlife sciencenucleic acid sequenceobopolypeptide regionsequence

FAIR 22/48

Evaluated 26 Oct 2026

How scores work

Source & access

Homepagewww-igbmc.u-strasbg.fr Browse in OBO FoundryOBO Foundry registry

homepage www-igbmc.u-strasbg.fr HTTP fetch failed

Portals & registries

Also registered as
fairsharing: FAIRsharing.zsnv69 obofoundry: mao wikidata.entity: Q114677893

Automated evaluation

F Findable FAIR11/12

Persistent identifier (F1)purl.obolibrary.org+4
Indexed in services (F4)3: OBO Foundry, Bioregistry, FAIRsharing+4
Citable reference (F2)doi:10.1093/nar/gki735+3

A Accessible FAIR3/12

Homepage reachableHTTP fetch failed0
Artefact retrievable over HTTP(S) (A1)no download or repository listed0
Metadata persists in a registry (A2)OBO Foundry, Bioregistry+3

I Interoperable FAIR8/12

Formal machine-readable format (I1)OWL, OBO+5
Semantic-web IRIs (I2)OWL, OBO+3
References other vocabularies (I3)no imported vocabularies found0

R Reusable FAIR0/12

Clear license (R1.1)none found0
Release provenance (R1.2)no version in artefact, registry or release tags0
Community standards (R1.3)no independent compliance report (not on the OBO Dashboard)0

Q Ontology consistency & quality0/20

Logical consistencynever checked by a reasoner0
OWL 2 DL profileprofile not checked0
Upper-ontology alignmentno BFO/COB/DOLCE import found0
Standard relations (RO)does not import the Relation Ontology0
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 Maintenance0/16

Recencyno activity evidence0
Release cadence (12 months)0 releases0

U Community adoption1/16

Documented adopting projects0 projects0
Reused by other ontologies00
Community signalmax(stars 0 → 0, citations 19 → 1)+1

P Penalties (inactivity & inconsistency)-15

No activity evidenceno commits, releases or dated files found-5
Inactive statusmarked legacy-10
Consistencynot yet checked by a reasoner0

FAIR subtotal 22/48 · earned 23/100 − 15 inactivity = 8/100 → grade E

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.

Run	Score	FAIR	Version evaluated	Terms	Snapshot
26 Oct 2026, 03:31 UTC	8 E	22	—	—	JSON

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”.

Fact	Source	Retrieved
Homepage link check (HTTP fetch failed)	www-igbmc.u-strasbg.fr	26 Oct 2026, 03:05 UTC
OBO Foundry status, license & usages	obofoundry.org	26 Oct 2026, 02:37 UTC
Bioregistry mappings, dependencies & reuse	bioregistry.io	26 Oct 2026, 03:05 UTC
Crossref citations (doi:10.1093/nar/gki735)	api.crossref.org	26 Oct 2026, 03:05 UTC

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

How to cite

MAO: a Multiple Alignment Ontology for nucleic acid and protein sequences (2005) · doi:10.1093/nar/gki735 · 19 citations