Ontology

SLM

SwissLipid

SwissLipids is a curated resource that provides information about known lipids, including lipid structure, metabolism, interactions, and subcellular and tissue localization. Information is curated from peer-reviewed literature and referenced using established ontologies, and provided with full provenance and evidence codes for curated assertions.

biocurationcellular localizationchemical structurechemical structure imagechemistry databasesenzymeinteraction/pathwaylife science

E39

FAIR 40/48

Evaluated 26 Oct 2026

How scores work

Source & access

Homepageswisslipids.org DownloadCanonical file / PURL Browse in OLSEMBL-EBI Ontology Lookup Service

homepage swisslipids.org HTTP 200
download w3id.org HTTP 200

Portals & registries

Source	ID	Version	Classes	Properties	Individuals	Loaded
OLS (EMBL-EBI)	`slm`	—	1,017,405	51	0	21 Oct 2026

Ontology IRI https://swisslipids.org/rdf/SLM_

Languages en

Imports from (3)
CHEBI IAO RO

Reused by (1)
OBA

Also registered as
fairsharing: FAIRsharing.pxr7x2 ols: slm

Automated evaluation

F Findable FAIR11/12

Persistent identifier (F1)w3id.org+4
Indexed in services (F4)3: OLS, Bioregistry, FAIRsharing+4
Citable reference (F2)doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btv285+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)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 3: chebi, iao, ro+4

R Reusable FAIR5/12

Clear license (R1.1)CC BY 4.0+5
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 & quality1/20

Logical consistencynever checked by a reasoner0
OWL 2 DL profileprofile not checked0
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

Recencyno activity evidence0
Release cadence (12 months)0 releases0

U Community adoption3/16

Documented adopting projects0 projects0
Reused by other ontologies1: oba+1
Community signalmax(stars 0 → 0, citations 164 → 2)+2

P Penalties (inactivity & inconsistency)-5

No activity evidenceno commits, releases or dated files found-5
Inactive statusnot archived, legacy or inactive0
Consistencynot yet checked by a reasoner0

FAIR subtotal 40/48 · earned 44/100 − 5 inactivity = 39/100 → 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	39 E	40	—	1,017,405	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)	swisslipids.org	26 Oct 2026, 03:22 UTC
Download link check (HTTP 200)	w3id.org	26 Oct 2026, 03:22 UTC
Artefact header	raw.githubusercontent.com	26 Oct 2026, 03:22 UTC
OLS classes, imports, version & release	ebi.ac.uk	26 Oct 2026, 03:22 UTC
Bioregistry mappings, dependencies & reuse	bioregistry.io	26 Oct 2026, 03:22 UTC
Crossref citations (doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btv285)	api.crossref.org	26 Oct 2026, 03:22 UTC

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

How to cite

The SwissLipids knowledgebase for lipid biology (2015) · doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btv285 · 164 citations