Ontology

ADO

Alzheimer's Disease Ontology

Covers the clinical, preclinical and molecular knowledge domains of Alzheimer's disease.

alzheimer'sneurodegenerationOBO Foundry
D54

FAIR 47/48

Version 2023-09-20

Evaluated 27 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)ado2.0.11,963186227 Oct 2026
OBO Dashboardado2023-09-2072——9 Dec 2025

Ontology IRI http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ado.owl
Version IRI http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ado/releases/2023-09-20/ado.owl

Languages en en-us zh

Imports from (56)
BFO BTO ChEBI CL CLO CMO DOID DRON EMAPA ExO FOODON FYPO GECKO GENEPIO GENO GO GSSO HPO IAO ICO INO MAXO MF MFOMD MI MMO MOD MONDO MOP MP MPATH NBO NCBITaxon NCIT OAE OBA OBCS OBI OGMS OMIT ONS OPMI PATO PLANA PR PW RO SCDO SCHEMAORG_HTTPS SO STATO SYMP TXPO UBERON VO XCO

Reused by (1)
BMONT

Logical consistency
consistent · 0 unsatisfiable
OWL 2 DL
no
ROBOT report
2 errors · 7 warnings · 6 info
OBO principles
FP01FP02FP03FP04FP05FP06FP07FP08FP09FP11FP12FP16FP20
Axioms
356 · 36% entities reused

OOPS!: 0 critical · 2 important · 6 minor pitfall types

Also registered as
aberowl: ADO bioportal: ADO fairsharing: FAIRsharing.ckd4rf obofoundry: ado ols: ado ontobee: ADO wikidata.entity: Q54887745

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:10.1016/j.jalz.2013.02.009+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 56: bfo, bto, chebi, cl, clo, cmo, doid, dron…+4
R Reusable FAIR11/12
  • Clear license (R1.1)CC BY 4.0+5
  • Release provenance (R1.2)2023-09-20 (version IRI in the artefact)+4
  • Community standards (R1.3)OBO principles: 9/13 checks pass+2
Q Ontology consistency & quality15/20
  • Logical consistencyconsistent, 0 unsatisfiable classes (OBO Dashboard)+10
  • OWL 2 DL profileoutside OWL 2 DL0
  • Upper-ontology alignmentimports BFO+3
  • Standard relations (RO)imports RO+1
  • ROBOT report: no errors2 errors0
  • ROBOT report: warning density7 warnings / 72 classes = 0.100
  • Pitfall scan: no critical pitfalls0 critical, 2 important, 6 minor pitfall types (OOPS! (local Docker))+1
M Maintenance0/16
  • Recency2023-09-21 → 37.2 months (older / unknown)0
  • Release cadence (12 months)0 releases (GitHub releases)0
U Community adoption3/16
  • Documented adopting projects0 projects0
  • Reused by other ontologies1: bmont+1
  • Community signalmax(stars 1 → 0, citations 92 → 2)+2
P Penalties (inactivity & inconsistency)-11
  • Time since last activity3.1 years → 4 × max(0, 3.1 − 1)-8
  • Inactive statusnot archived, legacy or inactive0
  • Consistencyconsistent, no unsatisfiable classes0
  • ROBOT report errors2 errors-3

FAIR subtotal 47/48 · earned 65/100 − 11 inactivity = 54/100 → grade D

Community adoption 0

No adopting projects documented yet.

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History & changes 2 runs

26 Oct 2026: 5427 Oct 2026: 54Score over time
Metrics across runs
27 Oct 2026
rubric v3.5		26 Oct 2026
rubric v3.4
Score5454
Findable1212
Accessible1212
Interoperable1212
Reusable1111
Quality1515
Maintenance00
Adoption33
Penalty-11-11
Logically consistentyesyes
Unsatisfiable classes00
In OWL 2 DLnono
ROBOT errors22
ROBOT warnings77
Critical pitfalls00
Imported vocabularies5656
Reused by11

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No changes detected between runs.

RunScoreFAIRVersion evaluatedTermsSnapshot
27 Oct 2026, 21:58 UTC54 D472023-09-201,963JSON
26 Oct 2026, 03:31 UTC54 D472023-09-201,963JSON

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.com27 Oct 2026, 21:58 UTC
Repository link check (HTTP 200)github.com27 Oct 2026, 21:58 UTC
Download link check (HTTP 200)purl.obolibrary.org27 Oct 2026, 21:58 UTC
Artefact header (version IRI)raw.githubusercontent.com27 Oct 2026, 21:58 UTC
Git refs (commit 4c810c8, latest tag v2023-09-20)github.com27 Oct 2026, 21:58 UTC
GitHub repository statisticsapi.github.com27 Oct 2026, 21:58 UTC
OLS classes, imports, version & releaseebi.ac.uk27 Oct 2026, 21:58 UTC
OBO Foundry status, license & usagesobofoundry.org27 Oct 2026, 21:58 UTC
Bioregistry mappings, dependencies & reusebioregistry.io27 Oct 2026, 21:58 UTC
OBO Dashboard (checked 9 Dec 2025)dashboard.obofoundry.org27 Oct 2026, 21:58 UTC
OOPS! pitfall scanoops.linkeddata.es27 Oct 2026, 21:58 UTC
Crossref citations (doi:10.1016/j.jalz.2013.02.009)api.crossref.org26 Oct 2026, 02:38 UTC carried forward

Run 2026-10-27T21-58-30Z · evaluator v2.0.0 · rubric v3.5 · entry.json · run snapshot

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