Ontology · Legacy
FMA
Foundational Model of Anatomy
A detailed reference ontology of human anatomy, including fine-grained neuroanatomy. Marked inactive in the OBO Foundry; much of its neuro content is cross-referenced from Uberon.
Source & access
- homepage si.washington.edu HTTP 200
- repository github.com HTTP 200
- download purl.obolibrary.org HTTP 200
Portals & registries
| Source | ID | Version | Classes | Properties | Individuals | Loaded |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OLS (EMBL-EBI) | fma | 5.1.0 | 104,721 | 216 | 2 | 27 Oct 2026 |
Ontology IRI http://purl.org/sig/ont/fma.owl
Version IRI http://purl.org/sig/ont/fma_5.1.0.owl
Languages en
Also registered as
aberowl: FMA bioportal: FMA fairsharing: FAIRsharing.x56jsy obofoundry: fma ols: fma ontobee: FMA wikidata.entity: Q1406710
Automated evaluation
- 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.jbi.2003.11.007+3
- Homepage reachableHTTP 200+3
- Artefact retrievable over HTTP(S) (A1)download HTTP 200+6
- Metadata persists in a registry (A2)OBO Foundry, Bioregistry+3
- Formal machine-readable format (I1)OWL+5
- Semantic-web IRIs (I2)OWL+3
- References other vocabularies (I3)no imported vocabularies found0
- Clear license (R1.1)CC BY 4.0+5
- Release provenance (R1.2)5.1.0 (version IRI in the artefact)+4
- Community standards (R1.3)no independent compliance report (not on the OBO Dashboard)0
- Logical consistencynever checked by a reasoner0
- OWL 2 DL profileprofile not checked0
- 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
- Recency2026-05-23 → 5.2 months (≤ 6 months)+8
- Release cadence (12 months)1 release (GitHub releases)+2
- Documented adopting projects0 projects0
- Reused by other ontologies00
- Community signalmax(stars 2 → 0, citations 0 → 0)0
- Time since last activity0.4 years → 4 × max(0, 0.4 − 1)0
- Inactive statusmarked legacy-10
- Consistencynot yet checked by a reasoner0
FAIR subtotal 41/48 · earned 51/100 − 10 inactivity = 41/100 → grade D
History & changes 2 runs
Metrics across runs
| 27 Oct 2026 rubric v3.5 | 26 Oct 2026 rubric v3.4 | |
|---|---|---|
| Score | 41 | 42 |
| Findable | 12 | 12 |
| Accessible | 12 | 12 |
| Interoperable | 8 | 8 |
| Reusable | 9 | 9 |
| Quality | 0 | 0 |
| Maintenance | 10 | 10 |
| Adoption | 0 | 1 |
| Penalty | -10 | -10 |
| Imported vocabularies | 0 | 0 |
| Reused by | 0 | 0 |
Newest run first. Highlighted cells changed since the run before; hover to see the earlier value. A rubric change alone can move points.
- Adoption: 1 → 0 (-1)
- Score: 42 → 41 · rubric v3.4 → v3.5
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) | si.washington.edu | 27 Oct 2026, 21:58 UTC |
| Repository link check (HTTP 200) | github.com | 27 Oct 2026, 21:58 UTC |
| Download link check (HTTP 200) | purl.obolibrary.org | 27 Oct 2026, 21:58 UTC |
| Artefact header (version IRI) | sig.biostr.washington.edu | 27 Oct 2026, 21:58 UTC |
| Git refs (commit c6f7080, latest tag 5.1.0) | github.com | 27 Oct 2026, 21:58 UTC |
| GitHub repository statistics | api.github.com | 27 Oct 2026, 21:58 UTC |
| OLS classes, imports, version & release | ebi.ac.uk | 27 Oct 2026, 21:58 UTC |
| OBO Foundry status, license & usages | obofoundry.org | 27 Oct 2026, 21:58 UTC |
| Bioregistry mappings, dependencies & reuse | bioregistry.io | 27 Oct 2026, 21:58 UTC |
Run 2026-10-27T21-58-30Z · evaluator v2.0.0 · rubric v3.5 · entry.json · run snapshot
How to cite
- A reference ontology for biomedical informatics: the Foundational Model of Anatomy (2003) · doi:10.1016/j.jbi.2003.11.007