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 in which amplification of a specific RNA/cDNA sequence by a reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction is monitored by detection of fluorescent probes or intercalating dyes that indicate the (absolute or relative) amount of product being produced in real time.