Ontology

ONTOAVIDA

Ontology for Avida digital evolution platform

The Ontology for Avida (OntoAvida) project aims to develop an integrated vocabulary for the description of the most widely used computational approach for performing experimental evolution using digital organisms (i.e., self-replicating computer programs that evolve within a user-defined computational environment). The lack of a clearly defined vocabulary makes biologists feel reluctant to embrace the field of digital evolution. This unique ontology has the potential to change this picture overnight.

oboontology
D46

FAIR 47/48

Version 2022-03-15

Evaluated 26 Oct 2026

How scores work

Source & access

Homepagegitlab.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)ontoavida2022-03-1567458025 Oct 2026
OBO Dashboardontoavida2022-03-15675——11 Dec 2025

Ontology IRI http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ontoavida.owl
Version IRI http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ontoavida/releases/2022-03-15/ontoavida.owl

Languages en

Imports from (6)
FBcv GSSO IAO NCIT RO STATO

Logical consistency
consistent · 0 unsatisfiable
OWL 2 DL
no
ROBOT report
—
OBO principles
FP01FP02FP03FP04FP05FP06FP07FP08FP09FP11FP12FP16FP20
Axioms
3,035 · 6.33% entities reused

Also registered as
aberowl: ONTOAVIDA bioportal: ONTOAVIDA obofoundry: ontoavida ols: ontoavida ontobee: ONTOAVIDA wikidata.entity: Q113014432

Automated evaluation

F Findable FAIR12/12
  • Persistent identifier (F1)purl.obolibrary.org+4
  • Indexed in services (F4)4: OLS, BioPortal, OBO Foundry, Bioregistry+5
  • Citable reference (F2)doi:10.1038/s41597-023-02514-3+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 FAIR12/12
  • Formal machine-readable format (I1)OWL, OBO+5
  • Semantic-web IRIs (I2)OWL, OBO+3
  • References other vocabularies (I3)imports 6: fbcv, gsso, iao, ncit, ro, stato+4
R Reusable FAIR11/12
  • Clear license (R1.1)CC BY 4.0+5
  • Release provenance (R1.2)2022-03-15 (version IRI in the artefact)+4
  • Community standards (R1.3)OBO principles: 10/13 checks pass+2
Q Ontology consistency & quality11/20
  • 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)imports RO+1
  • 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
  • Recency2022-03-15 → 55.4 months (older / unknown)0
  • Release cadence (12 months)0 releases (OLS version IRI)0
U Community adoption2/16
  • Documented adopting projects1 project+2
  • Reused by other ontologies00
  • Community signalmax(stars 0 → 0, citations 4 → 0)0
P Penalties (inactivity & inconsistency)-14
  • Time since last activity4.6 years → 4 × max(0, 4.6 − 1)-14
  • Inactive statusnot archived, legacy or inactive0
  • Consistencyconsistent, no unsatisfiable classes0

FAIR subtotal 47/48 · earned 60/100 − 14 inactivity = 46/100 → grade D

Community adoption 1

  • cran.r-project.org

    An R package—avidaR—uses OntoAvida to perform complex queries on an RDF database—avidaDB—containing the genomes, transcriptomes, and phenotypes of more than a million digital organisms

    Source: OBO Foundry registry

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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 UTC46 D472022-03-15674JSON

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)gitlab.com26 Oct 2026, 03:11 UTC
Repository link check (HTTP 200)gitlab.com26 Oct 2026, 03:11 UTC
Download link check (HTTP 200)purl.obolibrary.org26 Oct 2026, 03:11 UTC
Artefact header (version IRI)gitlab.com26 Oct 2026, 03:11 UTC
OLS classes, imports, version & releaseebi.ac.uk26 Oct 2026, 03:11 UTC
OBO Foundry status, license & usagesobofoundry.org26 Oct 2026, 02:37 UTC
Bioregistry mappings, dependencies & reusebioregistry.io26 Oct 2026, 03:11 UTC
OBO Dashboard (checked 11 Dec 2025)dashboard.obofoundry.org26 Oct 2026, 02:37 UTC
Crossref citations (doi:10.1038/s41597-023-02514-3)api.crossref.org26 Oct 2026, 03:11 UTC

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

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