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).
A procedure or technique performed outside the living body of a higher organism by which properties of microorganisms, e.g. infectious agents such as bacteria, fungi or parasites, and their effects on other living organisms is assessed and a quantitative or qualitative value assigned.