Schema
CAS
Cell Annotation Schema
A JSON Schema for recording cell type annotations of single-cell datasets, including evidence, marker genes and links to ontology terms.
Automated evaluation
F Findable FAIR0/12
- Persistent identifier (F1)no PURL / w3id / DOI for the artefact0
- Indexed in services (F4)not indexed anywhere0
- Citable reference (F2)no reference publication listed0
A Accessible FAIR9/12
- Homepage reachableHTTP 200+3
- Artefact retrievable over HTTP(S) (A1)repository HTTP 200+6
- Metadata persists in a registry (A2)not in Bioregistry or OBO Foundry0
I Interoperable FAIR5/12
- Formal machine-readable format (I1)JSON Schema+5
- Semantic-web IRIs (I2)no RDF/OWL/JSON-LD representation0
- References other vocabularies (I3)no imported vocabularies found0
R Reusable FAIR2/12
- Clear license (R1.1)none found0
- Release provenance (R1.2)v1.1.0 (latest GitHub release); not declared inside the artefact+2
- Community standards (R1.3)no independent compliance report (not on the OBO Dashboard)0
Q Ontology consistency & qualityn/a
- Not applicableschema without an OWL/OBO/RDF artefact; total scaled from 80 to 1000
M Maintenance2/16
- Recency2025-06-16 → 16.3 months (≤ 2 years)+2
- Release cadence (12 months)0 releases (GitHub releases)0
U Community adoption3/16
- Documented adopting projects1 project+2
- Reused by other ontologies00
- Community signalmax(stars 16 → 1, citations 0 → 0)+1
P Penalties (inactivity & inconsistency)-1
- Time since last activity1.4 years → 4 × max(0, 1.4 − 1)-1
- Inactive statusnot archived, legacy or inactive0
FAIR subtotal 16/48 · earned 21/80 → scaled 26 − 1 inactivity = 25/100 → grade E
Community adoption 1
- BICAN
Cell type taxonomy annotation
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Tooling
- Taxonomy Development ToolsBuild and edit Cell Annotation Schema taxonomies
History & changes 6 runs
Score over time
- Score: 25 → 22 · rubric v3.0 → v3.3
- Evaluated version: v1.1.0 → v1.1.0 + commit ffedb1b
- Evaluated version: v1.1.0 + commit ffedb1b → v1.1.0
- Score: 47 → 25 · rubric v2.2 → v3.0
- Evaluated version: v1.1.0 → v1.1.0 + commit ffedb1b
- Score: 43 → 47 · rubric v2.0 → v2.2
- Evaluated version: commit ffedb1b → v1.1.0
- Score: 51 → 43 (grade C → D) · rubric v1.0 → v2.0
- Evaluated version: — → commit ffedb1b
| Run | Score | FAIR | Version evaluated | Terms | Snapshot |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25 Oct 2026, 19:23 UTC | 22 E | 13 | v1.1.0 + commit ffedb1b | — | JSON |
| 25 Oct 2026, 19:10 UTC | 25 E | 16 | v1.1.0 | — | JSON |
| 25 Oct 2026, 18:49 UTC | 25 D | 16 | v1.1.0 + commit ffedb1b | — | JSON |
| 25 Oct 2026, 18:21 UTC | 47 D | 30 | v1.1.0 | — | JSON |
| 25 Oct 2026, 18:08 UTC | 43 D | 25 | commit ffedb1b | — | JSON |
| 25 Oct 2026, 17:55 UTC | 51 C | — | — | — | JSON |
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) | github.com | 25 Oct 2026, 19:10 UTC |
| Repository link check (HTTP 200) | github.com | 25 Oct 2026, 19:10 UTC |
| Git refs (commit ffedb1b, latest tag v1.1.0) | github.com | 25 Oct 2026, 19:10 UTC |
| GitHub repository statistics | api.github.com | 25 Oct 2026, 19:10 UTC |
Run 2026-10-25T19-10-16Z · evaluator v2.0.0 · rubric v3.0 · entry.json · run snapshot