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 any condition in which the main influencing factor is control of the process of breathing, whether by the control of the volume of air breathed or by control of the contents of the breathed air. This may be for the treatment of disease or for the experimental study of physiology or pathology.