Ontology

NBO

Neuro Behavior Ontology

Covers behavioral processes and phenotypes, such as learning, motor and social behavior, for annotating animal and human behavior.

behaviorOBO Foundry
B74

FAIR 44/48

Version 2023-07-04

Evaluated 25 Oct 2026

How scores work

Source & access

Homepagegithub.com DownloadCanonical file / PURL Browse in OLSEMBL-EBI Ontology Lookup ServiceBrowse in OBO FoundryOBO Foundry registry

Portals & registries

SourceIDVersionClassesPropertiesIndividualsLoaded
OLS (EMBL-EBI)nbo2023-07-044,546326025 Oct 2026
OBO Dashboardnbo2023-07-041,022——9 Dec 2025

Ontology IRI http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/nbo.owl
Version IRI http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/nbo/releases/2023-07-04/nbo.owl

Languages en

Imports from (10)
BFO BSPO ChEBI COB GO IAO NCBITAXON PATO RO UBERON

Reused by (34)
ADO APOLLO_SV DPO ECTO HPO MAXO MONDO MP OBA OHD PLANP UBERON UPHENO XPO AISM BCGO CPONT ECAO ECOCORE EPIO FLOPO FOVT GENEPIO GO GSSO HCAO MF MFOEM MFOMD PATO PCL PREFER RBO SCDO

Logical consistency
consistent · 0 unsatisfiable
OWL 2 DL
yes
ROBOT report
0 errors · 225 warnings · 169 info
OBO principles
FP01FP02FP03FP04FP05FP06FP07FP08FP09FP11FP12FP16FP20
Axioms
7,164 · 11.99% entities reused

Also registered as
aberowl: NBO bioportal: NBO fairsharing: FAIRsharing.pktgc6 obofoundry: nbo ols: nbo ontobee: NBO wikidata.entity: Q81661716

Automated evaluation

F Findable FAIR9/12
  • Persistent identifier (F1)purl.obolibrary.org+4
  • Indexed in services (F4)5: OLS, BioPortal, OBO Foundry, Bioregistry, FAIRsharing+5
  • Citable reference (F2)no reference publication listed0
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 10: bfo, bspo, chebi, cob, go, iao, ncbitaxon, pato…+4
R Reusable FAIR11/12
  • Clear license (R1.1)CC BY 3.0+5
  • Release provenance (R1.2)2023-07-04 (version IRI in the artefact)+4
  • Community standards (R1.3)OBO principles: 9/13 checks pass+2
Q Ontology consistency & quality19/20
  • Upper-ontology alignmentimports BFO, COB+4
  • Standard relations (RO)imports RO+2
  • Logical consistencyconsistent, 0 unsatisfiable classes (OBO Dashboard)+6
  • ROBOT report: no errors0 errors+2
  • ROBOT report: warning density225 warnings / 1022 classes = 0.22+1
  • Scaled 15/16 → 20OOPS! pitfall scan unavailable for this run+4
M Maintenance5/16
  • Recency2026-01-14 → 9.3 months (≤ 1 year)+5
  • Release cadence (12 months)0 releases (GitHub releases)0
U Community adoption6/16
  • Documented adopting projects0 projects0
  • Reused by other ontologies34: ado, apollo_sv, dpo, ecto, hp, maxo…+4
  • Community signalmax(stars 28 → 2, citations 0 → 0)+2
P Penalties (inactivity & inconsistency)0
  • Time since last activity0.8 years → 4 × max(0, 0.8 − 1)0
  • Inactive statusnot archived, legacy or inactive0

FAIR subtotal 44/48 · earned 74/100 = 74/100 → grade B

Community adoption 0

No adopting projects documented yet.

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History & changes 6 runs

25 Oct 2026: 7325 Oct 2026: 7425 Oct 2026: 7425 Oct 2026: 7425 Oct 2026: 7425 Oct 2026: 74Score over time
  • Score: 73 → 74 · rubric v1.0 → v2.0
RunScoreFAIRVersion evaluatedTermsSnapshot
25 Oct 2026, 19:23 UTC74 B442023-07-044,546JSON
25 Oct 2026, 19:10 UTC74 B442023-07-044,546JSON
25 Oct 2026, 18:49 UTC74 B442023-07-044,546JSON
25 Oct 2026, 18:21 UTC74 B552023-07-044,546JSON
25 Oct 2026, 18:08 UTC74 B552023-07-044,546JSON
25 Oct 2026, 17:55 UTC73 B—2023-07-044,546JSON

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
Download link check (HTTP 200)purl.obolibrary.org25 Oct 2026, 19:10 UTC
Artefact header (version IRI)raw.githubusercontent.com25 Oct 2026, 19:10 UTC
Git refs (commit 2a03b1e, latest tag v2023-07-04)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

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