Ontology

ZFA

Zebrafish anatomy and development ontology

A structured controlled vocabulary of the anatomy and development of the Zebrafish

anatomydevelopmental biologylife cyclelife cycle stagelife sciencemorphologyoboontology
A85

FAIR 48/48

Version 2026-07-16

Evaluated 26 Oct 2026

How scores work

Source & access

Homepagewiki.zfin.org 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)zfa2026-07-163,29344025 Oct 2026
OBO Dashboardzfa2026-07-163,277——18 Jul 2026

Ontology IRI http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/zfa.owl
Version IRI http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/zfa/releases/2026-07-16/zfa.owl

Languages en

Imports from (4)
IAO OMO RO ZFS

Reused by (5)
ZP AEO EFO PRIDE ZFS

Logical consistency
consistent · 0 unsatisfiable
OWL 2 DL
yes
ROBOT report
0 errors · 471 warnings · 1 info
OBO principles
FP01FP02FP03FP04FP05FP06FP07FP08FP09FP11FP12FP16FP20
Axioms
31,943 · 2.17% entities reused

Also registered as
aberowl: ZFA bioportal: ZFA fairsharing: FAIRsharing.s3r6sk obofoundry: zfa ols: zfa ontobee: ZFA wikidata.entity: Q81661530

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:10.1186/2041-1480-5-12+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 4: iao, omo, ro, zfs+4
R Reusable FAIR12/12
  • Clear license (R1.1)CC BY 3.0+5
  • Release provenance (R1.2)2026-07-16 (version IRI in the artefact)+4
  • Community standards (R1.3)OBO principles: 12/13 checks pass+3
Q Ontology consistency & quality16/20
  • 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)imports RO+1
  • ROBOT report: no errors0 errors+2
  • ROBOT report: warning density471 warnings / 3277 classes = 0.140
  • Pitfall scan: no critical pitfallsno pitfall scan yet; ROBOT report has 0 errors+1
M Maintenance15/16
  • Recency2026-09-23 → 1.1 months (≤ 3 months)+10
  • Release cadence (12 months)4 releases (GitHub releases)+5
U Community adoption6/16
  • Documented adopting projects1 project+2
  • Reused by other ontologies5: zp, aeo, efo, pride, zfs+2
  • Community signalmax(stars 8 → 1, citations 67 → 2)+2
P Penalties (inactivity & inconsistency)0
  • Time since last activity0.1 years → 4 × max(0, 0.1 − 1)0
  • Inactive statusnot archived, legacy or inactive0
  • Consistencyconsistent, no unsatisfiable classes0

FAIR subtotal 48/48 · earned 85/100 = 85/100 → grade A

Community adoption 1

  • ZFIN

    Expression and phenotype annotation

    Curated by SchemaScope

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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 UTC85 A482026-07-163,293JSON

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)wiki.zfin.org26 Oct 2026, 03:31 UTC
Repository link check (HTTP 200)github.com26 Oct 2026, 03:31 UTC
Download link check (HTTP 200)purl.obolibrary.org26 Oct 2026, 03:31 UTC
Artefact header (version IRI)raw.githubusercontent.com26 Oct 2026, 03:31 UTC
Git refs (commit 06ad6e8, latest tag v2026-07-16)github.com26 Oct 2026, 03:31 UTC
GitHub repository statisticsapi.github.com26 Oct 2026, 03:31 UTC
OLS classes, imports, version & releaseebi.ac.uk26 Oct 2026, 03:31 UTC
OBO Foundry status, license & usagesobofoundry.org26 Oct 2026, 02:37 UTC
Bioregistry mappings, dependencies & reusebioregistry.io26 Oct 2026, 03:31 UTC
OBO Dashboard (checked 18 Jul 2026)dashboard.obofoundry.org26 Oct 2026, 02:37 UTC
Crossref citations (doi:10.1186/2041-1480-5-12)api.crossref.org26 Oct 2026, 03:31 UTC

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

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