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).
Term:
total accumulated time of physical contact or close proximity between test subject and social stimulus per unit time
The aggregate amount of time within a specified period during which a test subject touches or voluntarily moves or remains close to (for example within one centimeter of) a social stimulus such as another animal of the same species.