Ontology

HPO

Human Phenotype Ontology

Standard vocabulary of phenotypic abnormalities in human disease, with a large nervous system abnormality branch used in rare-disease diagnostics.

phenotypeclinicalrare diseaseOBO Foundry
A86

FAIR 45/48

Version 2026-09-01

Evaluated 25 Oct 2026

How scores work

Source & access

Homepagehpo.jax.org Repositorygithub.com DownloadCanonical file / PURL Browse in OLSEMBL-EBI Ontology Lookup ServiceBrowse in OBO FoundryOBO Foundry registry

Portals & registries

SourceIDVersionClassesPropertiesIndividualsLoaded
OLS (EMBL-EBI)hp2026-09-0132,772373025 Oct 2026
TIB Terminology Servicehp2025-10-2231,904361024 Oct 2025
OBO Dashboardhp2026-09-0122,670——16 Sept 2026

Ontology IRI http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/hp/hp-international.owl
Version IRI http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/hp/releases/2026-09-01/hp-international.owl

Languages cs de dtp en es fr it ja nl nna pt tr tw zh

Imports from (13)
BSPO ChEBI CL GO HSAPDV IAO MPATH NBO OMO PATO PR RO UBERON

Reused by (33)
CIDO DOID GSSO HTN MAXO MONDO OBA OBI ONS SCDO TXPO ADO ARO BMONT CHIRO COHO COVOC CPONT EFO ENM EPIO EUPATH EXMO GENEPIO GENO OHMI ONE ONTONEO OOSTT OPMI PRIDE UPHENO VALUESETS

Logical consistency
consistent · 0 unsatisfiable
OWL 2 DL
yes
ROBOT report
0 errors · 3,448 warnings · 9 info
OBO principles
FP01FP02FP03FP04FP05FP06FP07FP08FP09FP11FP12FP16FP20
Axioms
178,039 · 9.85% entities reused

Also registered as
aberowl: HPO bioportal: HP fairsharing: FAIRsharing.kbtt7f obofoundry: hp ols: hp ontobee: HP tib.ts: hp wikidata.entity: Q17027854

Automated evaluation

F Findable FAIR12/12
  • Persistent identifier (F1)purl.obolibrary.org+4
  • Indexed in services (F4)6: OLS, TIB, BioPortal, OBO Foundry, Bioregistry, FAIRsharing+5
  • Citable reference (F2)doi:10.1093/nar/gkaa1043+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 13: bspo, chebi, cl, go, hsapdv, iao, mpath, nbo…+4
R Reusable FAIR9/12
  • Clear license (R1.1)hpo (not a recognised open license)+2
  • Release provenance (R1.2)2026-09-01 (version IRI in the artefact)+4
  • Community standards (R1.3)OBO principles: 11/13 checks pass+3
Q Ontology consistency & quality14/20
  • Upper-ontology alignmentno BFO/COB/DOLCE import found0
  • Standard relations (RO)imports RO+2
  • Logical consistencyconsistent, 0 unsatisfiable classes (OBO Dashboard)+6
  • ROBOT report: no errors0 errors+2
  • ROBOT report: warning density3448 warnings / 22670 classes = 0.15+1
  • Scaled 11/16 → 20OOPS! pitfall scan unavailable for this run+3
M Maintenance16/16
  • Recency2026-10-24 → 0.0 months (≤ 3 months)+10
  • Release cadence (12 months)7 releases (GitHub releases)+6
U Community adoption11/16
  • Documented adopting projects2 projects+2
  • Reused by other ontologies33: cido, doid, gsso, htn, maxo, mondo…+4
  • Community signalmax(stars 380 → 4, citations 1185 → 5)+5
P Penalties (inactivity & inconsistency)0
  • Time since last activity0.0 years → 4 × max(0, 0.0 − 1)0
  • Inactive statusnot archived, legacy or inactive0

FAIR subtotal 45/48 · earned 86/100 = 86/100 → grade A

Community adoption 2

  • Genomics England

    Phenotyping in rare-disease programmes

    Curated by NeuroSchema
  • monarchinitiative.org

    HPO is used by the Monarch Initiative for phenotype annotations.

    Source: OBO Foundry registry

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History & changes 6 runs

25 Oct 2026: 9425 Oct 2026: 9525 Oct 2026: 9525 Oct 2026: 8625 Oct 2026: 8625 Oct 2026: 88Score over time
  • Score: 86 → 88 · rubric v3.0 → v3.3
  • Score: 95 → 86 · rubric v2.2 → v3.0
  • Score: 94 → 95 · rubric v1.0 → v2.0
RunScoreFAIRVersion evaluatedTermsSnapshot
25 Oct 2026, 19:23 UTC88 A452026-09-0132,772JSON
25 Oct 2026, 19:10 UTC86 A452026-09-0132,772JSON
25 Oct 2026, 18:49 UTC86 A452026-09-0132,772JSON
25 Oct 2026, 18:21 UTC95 A602026-09-0132,772JSON
25 Oct 2026, 18:08 UTC95 A602026-09-0132,772JSON
25 Oct 2026, 17:55 UTC94 A—2026-09-0132,772JSON

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)hpo.jax.org25 Oct 2026, 19:10 UTC
Repository link check (HTTP 200)github.com25 Oct 2026, 19:10 UTC
Download link check (HTTP 200)purl.obolibrary.org25 Oct 2026, 19:10 UTC
Artefact header (version IRI)release-assets.githubusercontent.com25 Oct 2026, 19:10 UTC
Git refs (commit f71bdf9, latest tag v2026-09-01)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
TIB Terminology Service metricsservice.tib.eu25 Oct 2026, 19:10 UTC
Bioregistry mappings, dependencies & reusebioregistry.io25 Oct 2026, 19:10 UTC
OBO Dashboard (checked 16 Sept 2026)dashboard.obofoundry.org25 Oct 2026, 19:10 UTC
Crossref citations (doi:10.1093/nar/gkaa1043)api.crossref.org25 Oct 2026, 19:10 UTC

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

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