Semantic resources project/Antibodies/Revised Methods/Immunoprecipitation

Description
IP: Immunoprecipitation

Outline
Already has an OBI definition; see below.

Ontology Terms
MeSH: "Immunoprecipitation"
 * D047468
 * http://bioportal.bioontology.org/visualize/40401/D047468
 * "The aggregation of soluble ANTIGENS with ANTIBODIES, alone or with antibody binding factors such as ANTI-ANTIBODIES or STAPHYLOCOCCAL PROTEIN A, into complexes large enough to fall out of solution."

NCI Thesaurus: "Immunoprecipitation"
 * http://ncicb.nci.nih.gov/xml/owl/EVS/Thesaurus.owl#Immunoprecipitation
 * http://bioportal.bioontology.org/visualize/40377/Immunoprecipitation
 * "Antigen aggregation with antibody, in the right ratios, to cause precipitation."

OBI: "Immunoprecipitation"
 * http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/OBI_0000690
 * http://bioportal.bioontology.org/visualize/40547/obi%253AOBI_0000690
 * "Immunoprecipitation is a process which realizes a material separation objective by relying on antibodies to specifically binding to material entity."

Definition
OBI: Immunoprecipitation is a process which realizes a material separation objective by relying on antibodies to specifically binding to material entity.