Ontology

MI

Molecular Interactions Controlled Vocabulary

The Molecular Interactions (MI) ontology forms a structured controlled vocabulary for the annotation of experiments concerned with protein-protein interactions. MI is developed by the HUPO Proteomics Standards Initiative.

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C62

FAIR 41/48

Version commit 13b5747

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)mi—1,65745025 Oct 2026
TIB Terminology Servicemi—1,6494509 Jul 2025
OBO Dashboardmi—1,657——16 Sept 2026

Ontology IRI http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/mi.owl

Languages en

Imports from (1)
IAO

Reused by (11)
BMONT GENEPIO ICEO INO ADO CAO CCO GEXO RETO REXO VALUESETS

Logical consistency
consistent · 0 unsatisfiable
OWL 2 DL
no
ROBOT report
24 errors · 570 warnings · 28 info
OBO principles
FP01FP02FP03FP04FP05FP06FP07FP08FP09FP11FP12FP16FP20
Axioms
15,239 · 1.64% entities reused

Also registered as
aberowl: MI bioportal: MI fairsharing: FAIRsharing.8qzmtr obofoundry: mi ols: mi ontobee: MI tib.ts: mi wikidata.entity: Q81661689

Automated evaluation

F Findable FAIR12/12
  • Persistent identifier (F1)purl.obolibrary.org+4
  • Indexed in services (F4)6: OLS, TIB, BioPortal, OBO Foundry, Bioregistry, FAIRsharing+5
  • Citable reference (F2)doi:10.1038/nbt926+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 FAIR10/12
  • Formal machine-readable format (I1)OWL, OBO+5
  • Semantic-web IRIs (I2)OWL, OBO+3
  • References other vocabularies (I3)imports 1: iao+2
R Reusable FAIR7/12
  • Clear license (R1.1)CC BY 4.0+5
  • Release provenance (R1.2)no version in artefact, registry or release tags0
  • Community standards (R1.3)OBO principles: 7/13 checks pass+2
Q Ontology consistency & quality10/20
  • Logical consistencyconsistent, 0 unsatisfiable classes (OBO Dashboard)+10
  • OWL 2 DL profileoutside OWL 2 DL0
  • Upper-ontology alignmentno BFO/COB/DOLCE import found0
  • Standard relations (RO)does not import the Relation Ontology0
  • ROBOT report: no errors24 errors0
  • ROBOT report: warning density570 warnings / 1657 classes = 0.340
  • Pitfall scan: no critical pitfallsno pitfall scan yet; ROBOT report has 24 errors0
M Maintenance10/16
  • Recency2026-09-11 → 1.5 months (≤ 3 months)+10
  • Release cadence (12 months)0 releases0
U Community adoption7/16
  • Documented adopting projects0 projects0
  • Reused by other ontologies11: bmont, genepio, iceo, ino, ado, cao…+3
  • Community signalmax(stars 5 → 1, citations 494 → 4)+4
P Penalties (inactivity & inconsistency)-6
  • Time since last activity0.1 years → 4 × max(0, 0.1 − 1)0
  • Inactive statusnot archived, legacy or inactive0
  • Consistencyconsistent, no unsatisfiable classes0
  • ROBOT report errors24 errors-6

FAIR subtotal 41/48 · earned 68/100 − 6 inactivity = 62/100 → 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 UTC62 C41commit 13b57471,657JSON

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, 03:06 UTC
Repository link check (HTTP 200)github.com26 Oct 2026, 03:06 UTC
Download link check (HTTP 200)purl.obolibrary.org26 Oct 2026, 03:06 UTC
Artefact headerraw.githubusercontent.com26 Oct 2026, 03:06 UTC
Git refs (commit 13b5747)github.com26 Oct 2026, 03:06 UTC
GitHub repository statisticsapi.github.com26 Oct 2026, 03:06 UTC
OLS classes, imports, version & releaseebi.ac.uk26 Oct 2026, 03:06 UTC
OBO Foundry status, license & usagesobofoundry.org26 Oct 2026, 02:37 UTC
TIB Terminology Service metricsservice.tib.eu26 Oct 2026, 03:06 UTC
Bioregistry mappings, dependencies & reusebioregistry.io26 Oct 2026, 03:06 UTC
OBO Dashboard (checked 16 Sept 2026)dashboard.obofoundry.org26 Oct 2026, 02:37 UTC
Crossref citations (doi:10.1038/nbt926)api.crossref.org26 Oct 2026, 03:06 UTC

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

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