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 nucleobase analogue that is uracil in which the hydrogen at position 5 is replaced by fluorine. Following conversion to the active deoxynucleotide, It inhibits DNA synthesis by blocking the thymidylate synthetase conversion of deoxyuridylic acid to thymidylic acid.