Ontology · Legacy

MO

Microarray experimental conditions

The MGED Ontology (MO) provides terms for annotating all aspects of a microarray experiment from the design of the experiment and array layout, through to the preparation of the biological sample and the protocols used to hybridize the RNA and analyze the data.

assaydna microarrayexpression datalife scienceontologytranscript

E13

FAIR 26/48

Evaluated 26 Oct 2026

How scores work

Source & access

Homepagemged.sourceforge.net DownloadCanonical file / PURL Browse in BioPortalNCBO BioPortal Browse in OBO FoundryOBO Foundry registry

homepage mged.sourceforge.net HTTP 200
download purl.obolibrary.org HTTP 404

Portals & registries

Also registered as
bioportal: MO fairsharing: FAIRsharing.qs4x5m obofoundry: mo wikidata.entity: Q114677897

Automated evaluation

F Findable FAIR12/12

Persistent identifier (F1)purl.obolibrary.org+4
Indexed in services (F4)4: BioPortal, OBO Foundry, Bioregistry, FAIRsharing+5
Citable reference (F2)doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btl005+3

A Accessible FAIR6/12

Homepage reachableHTTP 200+3
Artefact retrievable over HTTP(S) (A1)unreachable0
Metadata persists in a registry (A2)OBO Foundry, Bioregistry+3

I Interoperable FAIR8/12

Formal machine-readable format (I1)OWL+5
Semantic-web IRIs (I2)OWL+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 adoption2/16

Documented adopting projects0 projects0
Reused by other ontologies00
Community signalmax(stars 0 → 0, citations 143 → 2)+2

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 26/48 · earned 28/100 − 15 inactivity = 13/100 → 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	13 E	26	—	—	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 200)	mged.sourceforge.net	26 Oct 2026, 03:06 UTC
Download link check (HTTP 404)	purl.obolibrary.org	26 Oct 2026, 03:06 UTC
OBO Foundry status, license & usages	obofoundry.org	26 Oct 2026, 02:37 UTC
Bioregistry mappings, dependencies & reuse	bioregistry.io	26 Oct 2026, 03:06 UTC
Crossref citations (doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btl005)	api.crossref.org	26 Oct 2026, 03:06 UTC

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

How to cite

The MGED Ontology: a resource for semantics-based description of microarray experiments (2006) · doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btl005 · 143 citations