Ontology

NBO

Neuro Behavior Ontology

Covers behavioral processes and phenotypes, such as learning, motor and social behavior, for annotating animal and human behavior.

behaviorOBO Foundry
B73

FAIR 47/48

Version 2023-07-04

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)nbo2023-07-044,546326027 Oct 2026
OBO Dashboardnbo2023-07-041,022——9 Dec 2025

Ontology IRI http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/nbo.owl
Version IRI http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/nbo/releases/2023-07-04/nbo.owl

Languages en

Imports from (10)
BFO BSPO ChEBI COB GO IAO NCBITaxon PATO RO UBERON

Reused by (34)
ADO APOLLO_SV DPO ECTO HPO MAXO MONDO MP OBA OHD PLANP UBERON UPHENO XPO AISM BCGO CPONT ECAO ECOCORE EPIO FLOPO FOVT GENEPIO GO GSSO HCAO MF MFOEM MFOMD PATO PCL PREFER RBO SCDO

Logical consistency
consistent · 0 unsatisfiable
OWL 2 DL
yes
ROBOT report
0 errors · 225 warnings · 169 info
OBO principles
FP01FP02FP03FP04FP05FP06FP07FP08FP09FP11FP12FP16FP20
Axioms
7,164 · 11.99% entities reused

OOPS!: 1 critical · 1 important · 2 minor pitfall types

Also registered as
aberowl: NBO bioportal: NBO fairsharing: FAIRsharing.pktgc6 obofoundry: nbo ols: nbo ontobee: NBO wikidata.entity: Q81661716

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:10.1007/s00335-013-9481-z+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 10: bfo, bspo, chebi, cob, go, iao, ncbitaxon, pato…+4
R Reusable FAIR11/12
  • Clear license (R1.1)CC BY 3.0+5
  • Release provenance (R1.2)2023-07-04 (version IRI in the artefact)+4
  • Community standards (R1.3)OBO principles: 9/13 checks pass+2
Q Ontology consistency & quality18/20
  • 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 density225 warnings / 1022 classes = 0.220
  • Pitfall scan: no critical pitfalls1 critical, 1 important, 2 minor pitfall types (SchemaScope Python scan (OOPS! pitfall subset))0
M Maintenance5/16
  • Recency2026-01-14 → 9.4 months (≤ 1 year)+5
  • Release cadence (12 months)0 releases (GitHub releases)0
U Community adoption6/16
  • Documented adopting projects0 projects0
  • Reused by other ontologies34: ado, apollo_sv, dpo, ecto, hp, maxo…+4
  • Community signalmax(stars 28 → 2, citations 40 → 1)+2
P Penalties (inactivity & inconsistency)-3
  • Time since last activity0.8 years → 4 × max(0, 0.8 − 1)0
  • Inactive statusnot archived, legacy or inactive0
  • Consistencyconsistent, no unsatisfiable classes0
  • Critical pitfalls1 critical pitfall type (P19) × 3-3

FAIR subtotal 47/48 · earned 76/100 − 3 inactivity = 73/100 → grade B

Community adoption 0

No adopting projects documented yet.

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History & changes 2 runs

26 Oct 2026: 7727 Oct 2026: 73Score over time
Metrics across runs
27 Oct 2026
rubric v3.5		26 Oct 2026
rubric v3.4
Score7377
Findable1212
Accessible1212
Interoperable1212
Reusable1111
Quality1819
Maintenance55
Adoption66
Penalty-30
Logically consistentyesyes
Unsatisfiable classes00
In OWL 2 DLyesyes
ROBOT errors00
ROBOT warnings225225
Critical pitfalls1—
Imported vocabularies1010
Reused by3434

Newest run first. Highlighted cells changed since the run before; hover to see the earlier value. A rubric change alone can move points.

  • Penalty: 0 → -3
  • Quality: 19 → 18 (-1)
  • Score: 77 → 73 · rubric v3.4 → v3.5
RunScoreFAIRVersion evaluatedTermsSnapshot
27 Oct 2026, 21:58 UTC73 B472023-07-044,546JSON
26 Oct 2026, 03:31 UTC77 B472023-07-044,546JSON

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 2a03b1e, latest tag v2023-07-04)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, 21:43 UTC
Crossref citations (doi:10.1007/s00335-013-9481-z)api.crossref.org26 Oct 2026, 03:07 UTC carried forward
Crossref citations (doi:10.1016/b978-0-12-388408-4.00004-6)api.crossref.org26 Oct 2026, 03:07 UTC carried forward

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

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