http://www.ebi.ac.uk/efo/EFO_0001455

assay

measuring, scientific observation

OBI branch derived

study assay

any method

A planned process with the objective to produce information about some evaluant, An assay is a process with the objective to create as an output information about a material entity (bearing evaluant role)., A planned process with the objective to produce information about the material entity that is the evaluant, by physically examining it or its proxies.

OBI_0000070

12/3/12: BP: the reference to the 'physical examination' is included to point out that a prediction is not an assay, as that does not require physical examiniation.

A hybridization on a microarray., Assay the wavelength of light emitted by excited Neon atoms. Count of geese flying over a house.

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/IAO_0000122

measuring, scientific observation

A planned process with the objective to produce information about some evaluant

PlanAndPlannedProcess Branch, James Malone