Table 2 Use cases of core data types

A growth measurement (Data) reports the time (DataElement) it took to flower (Trait) for an Arabidopsis plant (Subject)

A two-color microarray result (Data) describes raw intensities measured (DataElement) for gene transcript probe hybrdization (Trait) for each pair of Arabidopsis individuals (Subject)

A marker measurement (ProtocolApplication) resulted in a genetic profile (Data) with genotype values (DataElement) for each SNP/microsatellite marker (Trait) for each human individual (Subject)

A genetical genomics stem cell Investigation was carried out on 30 recombinant mouse inbred strains (Subject). It involved a ProtocolApplication of the 'Affymetrix MG-U74Av2' Protocol to produce expression profiles (Data) for 12,422*16 microarray probes (Traits). These profiles consisted of a matrix of signals (DataElement) for each Probe (Traits) and each InbredStrain (Subject). Subsequently, these Data were taken as inputData in a normalization procedure (ProtocolApplication) using RMA normalization Protocol, which resulted in outputData of normalized profiles (Data) of Probe*InbredStrain (Trait*Subject)