Ontology

VBO

Vertebrate Breed Ontology

Vertebrate Breed Ontology is an ontology created to serve as a single computable resource for vertebrate breed names.

oboontology
B83

FAIR 48/48

Version 2026-04-15

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)vbo2026-04-1520,4732537325 Oct 2026
OBO Dashboardvbo2026-04-1520,225——14 May 2026

Ontology IRI http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/vbo.owl
Version IRI http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/vbo/releases/2026-04-15/vbo.owl

Languages en

Imports from (13)
BFO CHEBI CL COB ENVO GO IAO NCBITaxon OMO PATO PR RO UBERON

Logical consistency
consistent · 0 unsatisfiable
OWL 2 DL
yes
ROBOT report
0 errors · 34,902 warnings · 1 info
OBO principles
FP01FP02FP03FP04FP05FP06FP07FP08FP09FP11FP12FP16FP20
Axioms
262,619 · 1.46% entities reused

Also registered as
aberowl: VBO agroportal: VBO biodivportal: VBO bioportal: VBO obofoundry: vbo ols: vbo ontobee: VBO wikidata.entity: Q114296193

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:10.1111/jvim.70133+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 13: bfo, chebi, cl, cob, envo, go, iao, ncbitaxon…+4
R Reusable FAIR12/12
  • Clear license (R1.1)CC BY 4.0+5
  • Release provenance (R1.2)2026-04-15 (version IRI in the artefact)+4
  • Community standards (R1.3)OBO principles: 11/13 checks pass+3
Q Ontology consistency & quality19/20
  • Logical consistencyconsistent, 0 unsatisfiable classes (OBO Dashboard)+10
  • OWL 2 DL profilein OWL 2 DL+2
  • Upper-ontology alignmentimports BFO, COB+3
  • Standard relations (RO)imports RO+1
  • ROBOT report: no errors0 errors+2
  • ROBOT report: warning density34902 warnings / 20225 classes = 1.730
  • Pitfall scan: no critical pitfallsno pitfall scan yet; ROBOT report has 0 errors+1
M Maintenance13/16
  • Recency2026-10-20 → 0.2 months (≤ 3 months)+10
  • Release cadence (12 months)2 releases (GitHub releases)+3
U Community adoption3/16
  • Documented adopting projects2 projects+2
  • Reused by other ontologies00
  • Community signalmax(stars 17 → 1, citations 3 → 0)+1
P Penalties (inactivity & inconsistency)0
  • Time since last activity0.0 years → 4 × max(0, 0.0 − 1)0
  • Inactive statusnot archived, legacy or inactive0
  • Consistencyconsistent, no unsatisfiable classes0

FAIR subtotal 48/48 · earned 83/100 = 83/100 → grade B

Community adoption 2

  • omia.org

    VBO is used in the Online Mendelian Inheritance in Animals (OMIA) for breed annotations.

    Source: OBO Foundry registry
  • cellosaurus.org

    VBO is used in Cellosaurus for breed/subspecies of origin of cell lines.

    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 UTC83 B482026-04-1520,473JSON

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, 03:28 UTC
Repository link check (HTTP 200)github.com26 Oct 2026, 03:28 UTC
Download link check (HTTP 200)purl.obolibrary.org26 Oct 2026, 03:28 UTC
Artefact header (version IRI)raw.githubusercontent.com26 Oct 2026, 03:28 UTC
Git refs (commit 7c6f872, latest tag v2026-04-15)github.com26 Oct 2026, 03:28 UTC
GitHub repository statisticsapi.github.com26 Oct 2026, 03:28 UTC
OLS classes, imports, version & releaseebi.ac.uk26 Oct 2026, 03:28 UTC
OBO Foundry status, license & usagesobofoundry.org26 Oct 2026, 02:37 UTC
Bioregistry mappings, dependencies & reusebioregistry.io26 Oct 2026, 03:28 UTC
OBO Dashboard (checked 14 May 2026)dashboard.obofoundry.org26 Oct 2026, 02:37 UTC
Crossref citations (doi:10.1111/jvim.70133)api.crossref.org26 Oct 2026, 03:28 UTC

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

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