Ontology

SBO

Systems Biology Ontology

The goal of the Systems Biology Ontology is to develop controlled vocabularies and ontologies tailored specifically for the kinds of problems being faced in Systems Biology, especially in the context of computational modeling. SBO is a project of the BioModels.net effort.

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D45

FAIR 40/48

Version 28:08:2021 03:13

Evaluated 26 Oct 2026

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Source & access

Homepageebi.ac.uk Repositorygithub.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)sbo28:08:2021 03:136951025 Oct 2026
TIB Terminology Servicesbo28:08:2021 03:136955021 Aug 2023
OBO Dashboardsbo—0——11 Dec 2025

Ontology IRI http://biomodels.net/SBO/

Languages en

Reused by (2)
PROCO SCDO

Logical consistency
consistent · 0 unsatisfiable
OWL 2 DL
yes
ROBOT report
—
OBO principles
FP01FP02FP03FP04FP05FP06FP07FP08FP09FP11FP12FP16FP20

Also registered as
aberowl: SBO bioportal: SBO fairsharing: FAIRsharing.s19src obofoundry: sbo ols: sbo ontobee: SBO tib.ts: sbo wikidata.entity: Q2377160

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/msb.2011.77+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 FAIR8/12
  • Formal machine-readable format (I1)OWL, OBO+5
  • Semantic-web IRIs (I2)OWL, OBO+3
  • References other vocabularies (I3)no imported vocabularies found0
R Reusable FAIR8/12
  • Clear license (R1.1)Artistic-2.0 (not a recognised open license)+2
  • Release provenance (R1.2)28:08:2021 03:13 (version info in the artefact)+4
  • Community standards (R1.3)OBO principles: 8/13 checks pass+2
Q Ontology consistency & quality12/20
  • Logical consistencyconsistent, 0 unsatisfiable classes (OBO Dashboard)+10
  • OWL 2 DL profilein OWL 2 DL+2
  • 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
  • Recency2023-05-16 → 41.3 months (older / unknown)0
  • Release cadence (12 months)0 releases0
U Community adoption3/16
  • Documented adopting projects0 projects0
  • Reused by other ontologies2: proco, scdo+1
  • Community signalmax(stars 14 → 1, citations 262 → 2)+2
P Penalties (inactivity & inconsistency)-10
  • Time since last activity3.4 years → 4 × max(0, 3.4 − 1)-10
  • Inactive statusnot archived, legacy or inactive0
  • Consistencyconsistent, no unsatisfiable classes0

FAIR subtotal 40/48 · earned 55/100 − 10 inactivity = 45/100 → grade D

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 UTC45 D4028:08:2021 03:13695JSON

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)ebi.ac.uk26 Oct 2026, 03:20 UTC
Repository link check (HTTP 200)github.com26 Oct 2026, 03:20 UTC
Download link check (HTTP 200)purl.obolibrary.org26 Oct 2026, 03:20 UTC
Artefact header (version info)raw.githubusercontent.com26 Oct 2026, 03:20 UTC
Git refs (commit 2143b29)github.com26 Oct 2026, 03:20 UTC
GitHub repository statisticsapi.github.com26 Oct 2026, 03:20 UTC
OLS classes, imports, version & releaseebi.ac.uk26 Oct 2026, 03:20 UTC
OBO Foundry status, license & usagesobofoundry.org26 Oct 2026, 02:37 UTC
TIB Terminology Service metricsservice.tib.eu26 Oct 2026, 03:20 UTC
Bioregistry mappings, dependencies & reusebioregistry.io26 Oct 2026, 03:20 UTC
OBO Dashboard (checked 11 Dec 2025)dashboard.obofoundry.org26 Oct 2026, 02:37 UTC
Crossref citations (doi:10.1038/msb.2011.77)api.crossref.org26 Oct 2026, 02:40 UTC
Crossref citations (doi:10.1186/1471-2202-7-s1-s11)api.crossref.org26 Oct 2026, 03:20 UTC

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

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