Ontology
MBA
Allen Mouse Brain Atlas Ontology
The hierarchy of adult mouse brain regions used by the Allen Mouse Brain Atlas and Common Coordinate Framework, packaged as an OWL ontology by the BICAN community.
Source & access
- homepage atlas.brain-map.org HTTP 200
- repository github.com HTTP 200
- download purl.brain-bican.org HTTP 200
Automated evaluation
F Findable FAIR4/12
- Persistent identifier (F1)purl.brain-bican.org+4
- 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)download HTTP 200+6
- Metadata persists in a registry (A2)not in Bioregistry or OBO Foundry0
I Interoperable FAIR8/12
- Formal machine-readable format (I1)OWL, OBO+5
- Semantic-web IRIs (I2)OWL, OBO+3
- References other vocabularies (I3)no imported vocabularies found0
R Reusable FAIR2/12
- Clear license (R1.1)none found0
- Release provenance (R1.2)v2025-07-04 (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 & quality0/20
- 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
M Maintenance5/16
- Recency2025-10-29 → 11.9 months (≤ 1 year)+5
- Release cadence (12 months)0 releases (GitHub releases)0
U Community adoption2/16
- Documented adopting projects2 projects+2
- Reused by other ontologies00
- Community signalmax(stars 0 → 0, citations 0 → 0)0
P Penalties (inactivity & inconsistency)0
- Time since last activity1.0 years → 4 × max(0, 1.0 − 1)0
- Inactive statusnot archived, legacy or inactive0
FAIR subtotal 23/48 · earned 30/100 = 30/100 → grade E
Community adoption 2
- Allen Brain Atlas
Source region hierarchy
Curated by NeuroSchema - BICAN
Mouse brain region annotation
Curated by NeuroSchema
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History & changes 6 runs
Score over time
- Score: 30 → 23 · rubric v3.0 → v3.3
- Evaluated version: v2025-07-04 → v2025-07-04 + commit 96ec731
- Evaluated version: v2025-07-04 + commit 96ec731 → v2025-07-04
- Score: 63 → 30 (grade C → D) · rubric v2.2 → v3.0
- Evaluated version: v2025-07-04 → v2025-07-04 + commit 96ec731
- Score: 58 → 63 · rubric v2.0 → v2.2
- Evaluated version: commit 96ec731 → v2025-07-04
- Download link: — → ok
- Score: 59 → 58 · rubric v1.0 → v2.0
- Evaluated version: — → commit 96ec731
| Run | Score | FAIR | Version evaluated | Terms | Snapshot |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25 Oct 2026, 19:23 UTC | 23 E | 16 | v2025-07-04 + commit 96ec731 | — | JSON |
| 25 Oct 2026, 19:10 UTC | 30 E | 23 | v2025-07-04 | — | JSON |
| 25 Oct 2026, 18:49 UTC | 30 D | 23 | v2025-07-04 + commit 96ec731 | — | JSON |
| 25 Oct 2026, 18:21 UTC | 63 C | 40 | v2025-07-04 | — | JSON |
| 25 Oct 2026, 18:08 UTC | 58 C | 35 | commit 96ec731 | — | JSON |
| 25 Oct 2026, 17:55 UTC | 59 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) | atlas.brain-map.org | 25 Oct 2026, 19:10 UTC |
| Repository link check (HTTP 200) | github.com | 25 Oct 2026, 19:10 UTC |
| Download link check (HTTP 200) | purl.brain-bican.org | 25 Oct 2026, 19:10 UTC |
| Artefact header | github.com | 25 Oct 2026, 19:10 UTC |
| Git refs (commit 96ec731, latest tag v2025-07-04) | github.com | 25 Oct 2026, 19:10 UTC |
| GitHub repository statistics | api.github.com | 25 Oct 2026, 19:10 UTC |
| ROBOT reason/report in NeuroSchema CI | — | 25 Oct 2026, 19:06 UTC |
Run 2026-10-25T19-10-16Z · evaluator v2.0.0 · rubric v3.0 · entry.json · run snapshot