Ontology

OPL

Ontology for Parasite LifeCycle

The Ontology for Parasite Lifecycle (OPL) models the life cycle stage details of various parasites, including Trypanosoma sp., Leishmania major, and Plasmodium sp., etc.

anatomydevelopmental biologyhostlife cyclelife cycle stagelife scienceoboontology
C67

FAIR 48/48

Version 2023-08-28

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)opl2023-08-285601212025 Oct 2026
OBO Dashboardopl2023-08-28561——11 Dec 2025

Ontology IRI http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/opl.owl
Version IRI http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/opl/2023-08-28/opl.owl

Languages en

Imports from (11)
BFO BTO CL GO IAO IDO NCBITaxon OBI OMO RO UBERON

Reused by (4)
GO OBI VO EUPATH

Logical consistency
consistent · 0 unsatisfiable
OWL 2 DL
yes
ROBOT report
0 errors · 2 warnings · 0 info
OBO principles
FP01FP02FP03FP04FP05FP06FP07FP08FP09FP11FP12FP16FP20
Axioms
6,243 · 41.18% entities reused

Also registered as
aberowl: OPL bioportal: OPL fairsharing: FAIRsharing.ez2nhb obofoundry: opl ols: opl ontobee: OPL

Automated evaluation

F Findable FAIR12/12
  • Persistent identifier (F1)purl.obolibrary.org+4
  • Indexed in services (F4)5: OLS, BioPortal, OBO Foundry, Bioregistry, FAIRsharing+5
  • Citable reference (F2)doi:10.1186/2041-1480-3-5+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+5
  • Semantic-web IRIs (I2)OWL+3
  • References other vocabularies (I3)imports 11: bfo, bto, cl, go, iao, ido, ncbitaxon, obi…+4
R Reusable FAIR12/12
  • Clear license (R1.1)CC BY 4.0+5
  • Release provenance (R1.2)2023-08-28 (version IRI in the artefact)+4
  • Community standards (R1.3)OBO principles: 11/13 checks pass+3
Q Ontology consistency & quality20/20
  • Logical consistencyconsistent, 0 unsatisfiable classes (OBO Dashboard)+10
  • OWL 2 DL profilein OWL 2 DL+2
  • Upper-ontology alignmentimports BFO+3
  • Standard relations (RO)imports RO+1
  • ROBOT report: no errors0 errors+2
  • ROBOT report: warning density2 warnings / 561 classes = 0.00+1
  • Pitfall scan: no critical pitfallsno pitfall scan yet; ROBOT report has 0 errors+1
M Maintenance0/16
  • Recency2024-07-25 → 27.0 months (older / unknown)0
  • Release cadence (12 months)0 releases (GitHub releases)0
U Community adoption4/16
  • Documented adopting projects2 projects+2
  • Reused by other ontologies4: go, obi, vo, eupath+2
  • Community signalmax(stars 3 → 0, citations 6 → 0)0
P Penalties (inactivity & inconsistency)-5
  • Time since last activity2.3 years → 4 × max(0, 2.3 − 1)-5
  • Inactive statusnot archived, legacy or inactive0
  • Consistencyconsistent, no unsatisfiable classes0

FAIR subtotal 48/48 · earned 72/100 − 5 inactivity = 67/100 → grade C

Community adoption 2

  • veupathdb.org

    The ontology for parasite lifecycle is used in the VEuPathDB (Eukaryotic Pathogen, Vector & Host Informatics Resources) for parasite life cycle annotation.

    Source: OBO Foundry registry
  • genedb.org

    The ontology for parasite lifecycle is used in the GeneDB for parasite life cycle annotation.

    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 UTC67 C482023-08-28560JSON

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, 03:11 UTC
Repository link check (HTTP 200)github.com26 Oct 2026, 03:11 UTC
Download link check (HTTP 200)purl.obolibrary.org26 Oct 2026, 03:11 UTC
Artefact header (version IRI)raw.githubusercontent.com26 Oct 2026, 03:11 UTC
Git refs (commit 280c2fc, latest tag v2023-08-28)github.com26 Oct 2026, 03:11 UTC
GitHub repository statisticsapi.github.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:10.1186/2041-1480-3-5)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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