information entity protocol protocol study protocol true SNOMEDCT:260686004 Tomasz Adamusiak A protocol is an information entity which is a set of instructions that describe an how an experiment is done. plan specification A plan specification which has sufficient level of detail and quantitative information to communicate it between investigation agents, so that different investigation agents will reliably be able to independently reproduce the process. method NCIt:C42651 MO:214 Jie Zheng http://www.ebi.ac.uk/efo/EFO_0001442 a protocol is a plan specification which has sufficient level of detail and quantitative information to communicate it between domain experts, so that different domain experts will reliably be able to independently reproduce the process. James Malone OBI branch derived + wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protocol_%28natural_sciences%29) PCR protocol, has objective specification, amplify DNA fragment of interest, and has action specification describes the amounts of experimental reagents used (e..g. buffers, dNTPS, enzyme), and the temperature and cycle time settings for running the PCR. PlanAndPlannedProcess Branch method used in an experiment protocol ready for release