Ontology

ADO

Alzheimer's Disease Ontology

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

alzheimer'sneurodegenerationOBO Foundry
C56

FAIR 45/48

Version 2.0.1

Evaluated 25 Oct 2026

How scores work

Portals & registries

SourceIDVersionClassesPropertiesIndividualsLoaded
OLS (EMBL-EBI)ado2.0.11,963186225 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

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)repository 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 FAIR9/12
  • Clear license (R1.1)CC BY 4.0+5
  • Release provenance (R1.2)2.0.1 (OLS); not declared inside the artefact+2
  • Community standards (R1.3)OBO principles: 9/13 checks pass+2
Q Ontology consistency & quality16/20
  • Upper-ontology alignmentimports BFO+4
  • Standard relations (RO)imports RO+2
  • Logical consistencyconsistent, 0 unsatisfiable classes (OBO Dashboard)+6
  • ROBOT report: no errors2 errors0
  • ROBOT report: warning density7 warnings / 72 classes = 0.10+1
  • Scaled 13/16 → 20OOPS! pitfall scan unavailable for this run+3
M Maintenance0/16
  • Recency2023-09-21 → 37.1 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)-8
  • Time since last activity3.1 years → 4 × max(0, 3.1 − 1)-8
  • Inactive statusnot archived, legacy or inactive0

FAIR subtotal 45/48 · earned 64/100 − 8 inactivity = 56/100 → grade C

Community adoption 0

No adopting projects documented yet.

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History & changes 6 runs

25 Oct 2026: 5825 Oct 2026: 6725 Oct 2026: 5925 Oct 2026: 5625 Oct 2026: 5625 Oct 2026: 48Score over time
  • Score: 56 → 48 (grade C → D) · rubric v3.0 → v3.3
  • Score: 59 → 56 · rubric v2.2 → v3.0
  • Score: 67 → 59 (grade B → C) · rubric v2.0 → v2.2
  • Score: 58 → 67 (grade C → B) · rubric v1.0 → v2.0
RunScoreFAIRVersion evaluatedTermsSnapshot
25 Oct 2026, 19:23 UTC48 D422.0.11,963JSON
25 Oct 2026, 19:10 UTC56 C452.0.11,963JSON
25 Oct 2026, 18:49 UTC56 C452.0.11,963JSON
25 Oct 2026, 18:21 UTC59 C602.0.11,963JSON
25 Oct 2026, 18:08 UTC67 B602.0.11,963JSON
25 Oct 2026, 17:55 UTC58 C—2.0.11,963JSON

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.com25 Oct 2026, 19:10 UTC
Repository link check (HTTP 200)github.com25 Oct 2026, 19:10 UTC
Git refs (commit 4c810c8, latest tag v2023-09-20)github.com25 Oct 2026, 19:10 UTC
GitHub repository statisticsapi.github.com25 Oct 2026, 19:10 UTC
OLS classes, imports, version & releaseebi.ac.uk25 Oct 2026, 19:10 UTC
OBO Foundry status, license & usagesobofoundry.org25 Oct 2026, 19:10 UTC
Bioregistry mappings, dependencies & reusebioregistry.io25 Oct 2026, 19:10 UTC
OBO Dashboard (checked 9 Dec 2025)dashboard.obofoundry.org25 Oct 2026, 19:10 UTC
Crossref citations (doi:10.1016/j.jalz.2013.02.009)api.crossref.org25 Oct 2026, 18:49 UTC carried forward

Run 2026-10-25T19-10-16Z · evaluator v2.0.0 · rubric v3.0 · entry.json · run snapshot

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