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).
Any method which uses rapid, highly parallel techniques to identify and characterize, for example determine the levels of, a large number of biomolecules (e.g. proteins or RNAs) in a limited number of samples, a limited number of biomolecules in a large number of samples, or a large number of biomolecules in a large number of samples.