Ontology

MCO

Microbial Conditions Ontology

Microbial Conditions Ontology is an ontology...

oboontology
D43

FAIR 44/48

Version 2019-05-15

Evaluated 26 Oct 2026

How scores work

Portals & registries

SourceIDVersionClassesPropertiesIndividualsLoaded
OLS (EMBL-EBI)mco2019-05-153,383108025 Oct 2026
OBO Dashboardmco2019-05-151,012——9 Dec 2025

Ontology IRI http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/mco.owl
Version IRI http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/mco/releases/2019-05-15/mco.owl

Languages en en-us

Imports from (17)
BFO CHEBI CL CLO GO IAO MICRO NCBITaxon NCIT OBI OMIT OMP PATO PECO RO UBERON ZECO

Logical consistency
consistent · 0 unsatisfiable
OWL 2 DL
no
ROBOT report
3 errors · 803 warnings · 29 info
OBO principles
FP01FP02FP03FP04FP05FP06FP07FP08FP09FP11FP12FP16FP20
Axioms
3,437 · 18.7% entities reused

Also registered as
aberowl: MCO bioportal: MCO obofoundry: mco ols: mco ontobee: MCO wikidata.entity: Q81661676

Automated evaluation

F Findable FAIR9/12
  • Persistent identifier (F1)purl.obolibrary.org+4
  • Indexed in services (F4)4: OLS, BioPortal, OBO Foundry, Bioregistry+5
  • Citable reference (F2)no reference publication listed0
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 17: bfo, chebi, cl, clo, go, iao, micro, ncbitaxon…+4
R Reusable FAIR11/12
  • Clear license (R1.1)CC BY 3.0+5
  • Release provenance (R1.2)2019-05-15 (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 errors3 errors0
  • ROBOT report: warning density803 warnings / 1012 classes = 0.790
  • Pitfall scan: no critical pitfallsno pitfall scan yet; ROBOT report has 3 errors0
M Maintenance0/16
  • Recency2022-07-01 → 51.8 months (older / unknown)0
  • Release cadence (12 months)0 releases (GitHub releases)0
U Community adoption1/16
  • Documented adopting projects0 projects0
  • Reused by other ontologies00
  • Community signalmax(stars 7 → 1, citations 0 → 0)+1
P Penalties (inactivity & inconsistency)-16
  • Time since last activity4.3 years → 4 × max(0, 4.3 − 1)-13
  • Inactive statusnot archived, legacy or inactive0
  • Consistencyconsistent, no unsatisfiable classes0
  • ROBOT report errors3 errors-3

FAIR subtotal 44/48 · earned 59/100 − 16 inactivity = 43/100 → grade D

Community adoption 0

No adopting projects documented yet.

Know a project that uses MCO? 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 UTC43 D442019-05-153,383JSON

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, 03:05 UTC
Repository link check (HTTP 200)github.com26 Oct 2026, 03:05 UTC
Download link check (HTTP 200)purl.obolibrary.org26 Oct 2026, 03:05 UTC
Artefact header (version IRI)raw.githubusercontent.com26 Oct 2026, 03:05 UTC
Git refs (commit 656c285, latest tag v2019-02-15)github.com26 Oct 2026, 03:05 UTC
GitHub repository statisticsapi.github.com26 Oct 2026, 03:05 UTC
OLS classes, imports, version & releaseebi.ac.uk26 Oct 2026, 03:05 UTC
OBO Foundry status, license & usagesobofoundry.org26 Oct 2026, 02:37 UTC
Bioregistry mappings, dependencies & reusebioregistry.io26 Oct 2026, 03:05 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