ODM2 Variable Name Controlled Vocabulary ODM2 Working Group A vocabulary for describing the name of Variables. DNA damage, olive tail moment In a single cell gel electrophoresis assay (comet assay), olive tail moment is the product of the percentage of DNA in the tail and the distance between the intesity centroids of the head and tail along the x-axis (Olive, et al., 1990) Originally from the CUAHSI HIS VariableNameCV. See: http://his.cuahsi.org/mastercvreg/edit_cv11.aspx?tbl=VariableNameCV.