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).
Assay which measures release of glycerol, the trihydroxy sugar alcohol that is the backbone of many lipids, from isolated cells such as adipocytes to quantifiy the hydrolysis of fat and/or lipids in the cells.