Category:ECO:0007075 ! phenomic profiling assay evidence

name: phenomic profiling assay evidence
def: "A type of experimental phenotypic evidence that results from the comparison of phenotype profiles (the physical and biochemical traits of organisms in particular environments) across multiple strains; that is, a meta-analysis of a set of phenotypic patterns from many tests in response to a series of changing genetic and/or environmental factors." [EDAM:topic\:3298, PMID:2118507]
is_a: ECO:0000059 ! experimental phenotypic evidence
comment: D.S. notes: I think this term is meant to be used for high throughput experiments where a large number of mutants is screened for their ability to grow in a large number of conditions. The individual mutants can then clustered based on the similarity of their phenotypic profiles-whether they grew or didn't grow across all the conditions. The goal being to try to identify genes whose products function in the same biological pathways based on their having similar phenotypes across multiple conditions.