The Clinical Measurement Ontology (CMO), Measurement Methods Ontology (MMO), and Experimental Condition Ontology (XCO) are currently being developed at the Rat Genome Database. For more information about these vocabularies please see Shimoyama et al. Three ontologies to define phenotype measurement data. Front Genet. 2012;3:87. Epub 2012 May 28 or contact us (http://rgd.mcw.edu/contact/index.shtml).
Any quantitation of the messenger RNAs which contribute to the chemical make-up of the spinal cord. Messenger RNAs are the high molecular weight, linear polymers, composed of nucleotides containing ribose and linked by phosphodiester bonds, that transfer the coding information for protein synthesis from the chromosomes to the ribosomes.