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Command-line toolkit to build, check and release ontologies.

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Licence
BSD-3-Clause
Cost
Free of charge
Source code
Open source
Activity
Active · last release Oct 2026
Domains
Life sciences

About

ROBOT supports automated ontology workflows including conversion, validation, reasoning, reporting and release preparation. It is useful for implementing and maintaining semantic models and ontology mappings.

Where it fits in the FAIR Metroline

Metroline steps

Use ontologies in the model

How to cite

Jackson R.C., Balhoff J.P., Douglass E., et al. (2019) ROBOT: A Tool for Automating Ontology Workflows. BMC Bioinformatics. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12859-019-3002-3

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Adoption and activity

22citations
328GitHub stars
v1.9.11latest release · Oct 2026
Oct 2026last code change

From bio.tools and GitHub, 23 Oct 2026.

More links

Download github.com/ontodev/robot/releases Report an issue github.com/ontodev/robot/issues Source code github.com/ontodev/robot Registry bio.tools DOI 10.1186/s12859-019-3002-3

Keywords

ontology OWL OBO format RDF SPARQL