Semantic resources project/Antibodies/Revised Methods/Chromatin Immunoprecipitation

Description
ChIP: Chromatin Immunoprecipitation

Outline
A procedure involving crosslinking and the precipitation of resulting protein-DNA (i.e. protein-"chromatin") complexs out of solution.

Commonly used to detect the binding of proteins to DNA itself, as in a ChIP-chip or ChIP-seq experiment where ChIP is followed by either a microarray or sequencing assay in order to detect which DNA sequences were precipitated out by the ChIP process.

ChIP can also be used in conjunction with gel electrophoresis techniques, and (in the absence of microarrays or sequencing) can be detected through typical staining processes?

(I need to get some references on the way ChIP is actually used.)

Definition
None yet