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Ontology of Experimental Variables and Values
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July 18, 2012
| Acronym | OOEVV |
| Visibility | Public |
| Description | The ontology of experimental variables and values provides a lightweight representation of (a) the variables used to measure experimental properties and (b) the measurement scales that form the complex data types supporting that data. Many different variables measure the same thing, here we use a lightweight representation driven by a small number of classes and a large number of variables to focus only on providing a vocabulary of variables that may be extended for consolidation to standardized variables for specific things and functions to map between values from different measurements scales. We use the base ontology description to provide a very lightweight representation of the basic elements of an experimental design and we use views to instantiate it for specific domains. |
| Status | Alpha |
| Format | OWL |
| Contact | Gully Burns, gully@usc.edu |
| Categories | Vocabularies |
- OoEVV tract tracing experiments
- This serves as an instantiation of the OoEVV ontology design pattern for variables derived from models of neuroanatomical tract-tracing experiments described in detail in Russ et al. 2011 (http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2105/12/351). This serves as a well-developed example system for development of the KEfED formulation.
- OoEVV vaccine protection experiments
- This serves as an instantiation of the OoEVV ontology design pattern for variables derived from vaccine protection studies that have been previously indexed in the Los Alamos National Laboratories (LANL) HIV Vaccine Trials Database. This is a comprehensive index of research outcomes derived from vaccine studies in nonhuman primates and provides an excellent index of papers for examination with our approach.