experimental manipulations

[stevevanhooser]

Hi all -

Is there any part of NIF that deals with experimental manipulations?

For example, common experimental manipulations in developing animals are monocular deprivation by lid suture, enucleation (removal of an eye), deafening, etc. These might have a value associated with them, such as date of onset or offset.

As an example, one might want to express the following:

right eye lid suture onset at postnatal day 12 right eye lid suture offset at postnatal day 21 left eye lid suture onset at postnatal day 21 right eye lid suture onset at postnatal day 26

(these aren't the best experiment, but just an example of some events that one might want to specify for an experimental animal)

We have a ton of these we'd like to express for our lab.

The closest I found are these clinical read codes but I don't think this is what we want: https://bioportal.bioontology.org/ontologies/RCD?p=classes&conceptid=72170

Thanks Steve