"The MGED Ontology" Sept 3, 2004 Chris Stoeckert, Helen Parkinson, Trish Whetzel, Paul Spellman, Catherine A. Ball, Joseph White, John Matese, Liju Fan, Gilberto Fragoso, Mervi Heiskanen, Susanna Sansone, Helen Causton, Laurence Game, Chris Taylor Concepts, definitions, terms, and resources for standardized description of a microarray experiment in support of MAGE v.1. The MGED ontology is divided into the MGED Core ontology which is intended to be stable and in synch with MAGE v.1; and the MGED Extended ontology which adds further associations and classes not found in MAGE v.1 An ontology for microarray experiments in support of MAGE v.1. "1.1.9" TargetedCellTypeDatabase SubstrateType Temperature DesignElementPackage ClinicalTreatment BioMaterialCharacteristicCategory NodeValue OrganismPartDatabase Organism Software HistologyDatabase AtomicAction BioAssayDataPackage LightUnit DeprecatedTerms Bedding CellTypeDatabase Preservation BioMaterialCharacteristics HigherLevelAnalysisProtocolType DiseaseStateDatabase PhysicalBioSequenceType DiseaseLocation FamilyHistory EnvironmentalHistory ExperimentPackage MGEDExtendedOntology SoftwareVariation OntologyEntry ExperimentalFactor ProtocolType DescriptionPackage DatabaseEntryType HigherLevelAnalysisPackage DataType Database SeqFeatureBasis Genotype ExperimentalFactorCategory PerturbationalDesign TargetedCellType GeneticModification ReplicateDescriptionType CompoundDatabase ProtocolPackage DiseaseState Action TimeUnit Allele MethodologicalFactorCategory TestResult QuantitationTypePackage ProtocolParameterType Light Media Roles Scale Water BioSequencePackage CancerSite BarrierFacility Histology OrganismPart DevelopmentalStage ConcentrationUnitOther QuantityUnitOther MethodologicalDesign DiseaseStagingDatabase PhysicalArrayDesign ConcentrationUnit Person Ploidy ImageFormat Result OperatorVariation Contact Organization FeatureGroup Parameter FeatureShape QuantityUnit ClinicalHistory Haplotype PreservationType TumorGradingDatabase HardwareVariation PublicationType MGEDCoreOntology ChromosomalAberration BioMaterialPackage Biometrics HardwareType OrganismStatus BiologicalFactorCategory QuantitationType TestType BiologicalProperty BioAssayDataCluster OtherUnit MeasurementType MeasurementPackage EpidemiologicalDesign MGEDOntology BioMaterial VolumeUnit Protocol ArrayDesignPackage Measurement Fiducial QualityControlDescriptionType CellLine CellType RadiationUnit ProtocolVariation DesignElementGroupType DerivedBioAssayType PopulationDensity ControlType PhenotypeDatabase OrganismDatabase ObservationDatabase BioSourceType ZoneDefect GeographicLocation Atmosphere TemperatureUnit ArrayGroup ArrayPackage Compound BioAssayPackage BioSourceProvider IndividualGeneticCharacteristics