Ontology

NGBO

Next Generation Biobanking Ontology

Next Generation Biobanking Ontology (NGBO) is an open application ontology representing contextual data about omics digital assets in biobank. The ontology focuses on capturing the information about three main activities: wet bench analysis used to generate omics data, bioinformatics analysis used to analyze and interpret data, and data management.

oboontology
C57

FAIR 44/48

Version 2024-08-27

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)ngbo2024-08-271,515252025 Oct 2026
OBO Dashboardngbo2024-08-271,516——11 Dec 2025

Ontology IRI http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ngbo.owl
Version IRI http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ngbo/2024-08-27/ngbo.owl

Languages en en-us

Imports from (30)
BAO BFO BTO CARO CHEBI CL DOID EDAM EFO GAZ GENEPIO GENO IAO ICO IDO NCBITaxon NCIT OBI OBIB OGMS OMIT OMRSE PATO PO RO schema.org SIO SO STATO UBERON

Logical consistency
consistent · 0 unsatisfiable
OWL 2 DL
no
ROBOT report
0 errors · 2 warnings · 0 info
OBO principles
FP01FP02FP03FP04FP05FP06FP07FP08FP09FP11FP12FP16FP20
Axioms
11,814 · 90.42% entities reused

Also registered as
aberowl: NGBO bioportal: NGBO obofoundry: ngbo ols: ngbo ontobee: NGBO

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+5
  • Semantic-web IRIs (I2)OWL+3
  • References other vocabularies (I3)imports 30: bao, bfo, bto, caro, chebi, cl, doid, edam…+4
R Reusable FAIR11/12
  • Clear license (R1.1)CC BY 4.0+5
  • Release provenance (R1.2)2024-08-27 (version IRI in the artefact)+4
  • Community standards (R1.3)OBO principles: 9/13 checks pass+2
Q Ontology consistency & quality18/20
  • 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 errors0 errors+2
  • ROBOT report: warning density2 warnings / 1516 classes = 0.00+1
  • Pitfall scan: no critical pitfallsno pitfall scan yet; ROBOT report has 0 errors+1
M Maintenance0/16
  • Recency2024-09-04 → 25.7 months (older / unknown)0
  • Release cadence (12 months)0 releases (OLS version IRI)0
U Community adoption0/16
  • Documented adopting projects0 projects0
  • Reused by other ontologies00
  • Community signalmax(stars 3 → 0, citations 0 → 0)0
P Penalties (inactivity & inconsistency)-5
  • Time since last activity2.1 years → 4 × max(0, 2.1 − 1)-5
  • Inactive statusnot archived, legacy or inactive0
  • Consistencyconsistent, no unsatisfiable classes0

FAIR subtotal 44/48 · earned 62/100 − 5 inactivity = 57/100 → 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 UTC57 C442024-08-271,515JSON

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, 03:07 UTC
Repository link check (HTTP 200)github.com26 Oct 2026, 03:07 UTC
Download link check (HTTP 200)purl.obolibrary.org26 Oct 2026, 03:07 UTC
Artefact header (version IRI)raw.githubusercontent.com26 Oct 2026, 03:07 UTC
Git refs (commit df48127)github.com26 Oct 2026, 03:07 UTC
GitHub repository statisticsapi.github.com26 Oct 2026, 03:07 UTC
OLS classes, imports, version & releaseebi.ac.uk26 Oct 2026, 03:07 UTC
OBO Foundry status, license & usagesobofoundry.org26 Oct 2026, 02:37 UTC
Bioregistry mappings, dependencies & reusebioregistry.io26 Oct 2026, 03:07 UTC
OBO Dashboard (checked 11 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