Ontology

METPO

Microbial Ecophysiological Trait and Phenotype Ontology

METPO (Microbial Ecophysiological Trait and Phenotype Ontology) provides standardized terms for describing microbial phenotypes, growth characteristics, and culture conditions. It includes classes for growth media, temperature tolerances, pH tolerances, and relationships like "grows in" and "does not grow in".

microbesontologyphenotypes
C55

FAIR 39/48

Version 2026-06-12

Evaluated 26 Oct 2026

How scores work

Source & access

Homepagegithub.com DownloadCanonical file / PURL Browse in OLSEMBL-EBI Ontology Lookup ServiceBrowse in BioPortalNCBO BioPortal

Portals & registries

SourceIDVersionClassesPropertiesIndividualsLoaded
OLS (EMBL-EBI)metpo2026-06-121,455182225 Oct 2026

Ontology IRI https://w3id.org/metpo/metpo.owl
Version IRI https://w3id.org/metpo/releases/2026-06-12/metpo.owl

Languages en

Imports from (2)
IAO OMO

Also registered as
aberowl: METPO bioportal: METPO ols: metpo

Automated evaluation

F Findable FAIR8/12
  • Persistent identifier (F1)w3id.org+4
  • Indexed in services (F4)3: OLS, BioPortal, Bioregistry+4
  • 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)Bioregistry+3
I Interoperable FAIR10/12
  • Formal machine-readable format (I1)OWL, OBO+5
  • Semantic-web IRIs (I2)OWL, OBO+3
  • References other vocabularies (I3)imports 2: iao, omo+2
R Reusable FAIR9/12
  • Clear license (R1.1)CC BY 4.0+5
  • Release provenance (R1.2)2026-06-12 (version IRI in the artefact)+4
  • 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 Maintenance16/16
  • Recency2026-10-24 → 0.1 months (≤ 3 months)+10
  • Release cadence (12 months)9 releases (GitHub releases)+6
U Community adoption0/16
  • Documented adopting projects0 projects0
  • Reused by other ontologies00
  • Community signalmax(stars 4 → 0, citations 0 → 0)0
P Penalties (inactivity & inconsistency)0
  • Time since last activity0.0 years → 4 × max(0, 0.0 − 1)0
  • Inactive statusnot archived, legacy or inactive0
  • Consistencynot yet checked by a reasoner0

FAIR subtotal 39/48 · 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 C392026-06-121,455JSON

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)w3id.org26 Oct 2026, 03:05 UTC
Artefact header (version IRI)raw.githubusercontent.com26 Oct 2026, 03:05 UTC
Git refs (commit cb490b7, latest tag 2026-06-12)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
Bioregistry mappings, dependencies & reusebioregistry.io26 Oct 2026, 03:05 UTC

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