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 method that utilizes a device consisting of a continuous moving belt which allows a subject to walk or run while physically remaining in one place and connected to or incorporating a device designed to follow a predetermined sequence of individual operations repeatedly and essentially without external influence or control to record output such as distance, speed, time, etc.