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).
This is a method using a device designed to follow a predetermined sequence of individual operations repeatedly and essentially without external influence or control to measure the physical or chemical characteristics of serum lipids, water insoluble fats and fat-like substances in the clear liquid that separates from blood after it has clotted completely, i.e. blood plasma from which fibrinogen has been removed.