The Clinical Measurement Ontology (CMO) is designed to be used to standardize morphological and physiological measurement records generated from clinical and model organism research and health programs.

The CMO was developed at the Rat Genome Database (rgd.mcw.edu) to encompass qualitative or quantitative values that result from the assessment of a morphological or physiological state or property of single or groups of individuals/samples. Terms relevant to livestock were contributed by Iowa State University incorporating terms from the Animal Trait Ontology (ATO). This project is aimed at enhancing the ability to standardize phenotype nomenclature across species. This will undoubtedly help the animal genome community by facilitating the transfer of genomics information from some well-studied species.

• Department of Animal Science, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, USA
• Mouse Genome Informatics, The Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, ME, USA
• Human and Molecular Genetics Center, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, USA
• Department of Physiology, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, USA
• Department of Surgery, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, USA

(Version: 2.231 with 3,968 terms, updated on Dec 12, 2024)

• Data archive and downloads
• @MCW (home of the CMO project)
• @BioPortal (OBO | CSV | RDF/XML | Diff)
• @OBO Foundry (Bridge to tools: OntoBee | AberOWL | OLS; Format: OWL)
• Data visulizations
• Browse the glossary
• Tree view on AmiGO

• Animal QTLdb at Iowa State University search
  Search QTLdb for trait
  in Cattle Chicken Goat Horse Pig Sheep 
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  Search QTLdb for trait
  in Cattle Chicken Goat Horse Pig Sheep  
• Animal CorrDB at Iowa State University search
  Search correlations / heritability data for trait
  in Cattle Chicken Horse Pig Sheep 
• RGD at the Medical College of Wisconsin
• VCmap tool