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 family of linear, sulfated, high-molecular-weight polysaccharides made up of repeating galactose and 3,6-anhydrogalactose units with alternating alpha 1-3 and beta 1-4 glycosidic linkages.