Ontology
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
- 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 | 25 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
- Logical consistency (ROBOT ELK)
- —
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)CUSTOM (not a recognised open license)+2
- 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
- Upper-ontology alignmentno BFO/COB/DOLCE import found0
- Standard relations (RO)does not import the Relation Ontology0
- Logical consistencynever checked by a reasoner0
- ROBOT report: no errorsno ROBOT report available0
- ROBOT report: warning densityno ROBOT report available0
- Scaled 0/16 → 20OOPS! pitfall scan unavailable for this run0
- Recency2026-05-23 → 5.1 months (≤ 6 months)+8
- Release cadence (12 months)0 releases0
- Documented adopting projects0 projects0
- Reused by other ontologies00
- Community signalmax(stars 0 → 0, citations 717 → 4)+4
- Time since last activity0.4 years → 4 × max(0, 0.4 − 1)0
- Inactive statusinactive in OBO Foundry-10
FAIR subtotal 38/48 · earned 50/100 − 10 inactivity = 40/100 → grade D
History & changes 6 runs
- Score: 62 → 40 (grade C → D) · rubric v2.2 → v3.0
- Score: 72 → 62 (grade B → C) · rubric v2.0 → v2.2
- Score: 65 → 72 · rubric v1.0 → v2.0
| Run | Score | FAIR | Version evaluated | Terms | Snapshot |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25 Oct 2026, 19:23 UTC | 40 D | 38 | 5.1.0 | 104,721 | JSON |
| 25 Oct 2026, 19:10 UTC | 40 D | 38 | 5.1.0 | 104,721 | JSON |
| 25 Oct 2026, 18:49 UTC | 40 D | 38 | 5.1.0 | 104,721 | JSON |
| 25 Oct 2026, 18:21 UTC | 62 C | 60 | 5.1.0 | 104,721 | JSON |
| 25 Oct 2026, 18:08 UTC | 72 B | 60 | 5.1.0 | 104,721 | JSON |
| 25 Oct 2026, 17:55 UTC | 65 B | — | 5.1.0 | 104,721 | 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) | si.washington.edu | 25 Oct 2026, 19:10 UTC |
| Download link check (HTTP 200) | purl.obolibrary.org | 25 Oct 2026, 19:10 UTC |
| Artefact header (version IRI) | sig.biostr.washington.edu | 25 Oct 2026, 19:10 UTC |
| OLS classes, imports, version & release | ebi.ac.uk | 25 Oct 2026, 19:10 UTC |
| OBO Foundry status, license & usages | obofoundry.org | 25 Oct 2026, 19:10 UTC |
| Bioregistry mappings, dependencies & reuse | bioregistry.io | 25 Oct 2026, 19:10 UTC |
| ROBOT reason/report in NeuroSchema CI | — | — |
| Crossref citations (doi:10.1016/j.jbi.2003.11.007) | api.crossref.org | 25 Oct 2026, 19:10 UTC |
Run 2026-10-25T19-10-16Z · evaluator v2.0.0 · rubric v3.0 · 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 · 717 citations