Adam Robot Scientist System
An Adam Robot Scientist System is a laboratory robot scientist that is are multidisciplinary research projects.
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- See: Laboratory Robotics, Computational Biology, Computer Science, Microbiology.
References
2014
- (Wikipedia, 2014) ⇒ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/robot_Scientist Retrieved:2014-10-8.
- QUOTE: Robot Scientist (also known as Adam[1]) is a laboratory robot created and developed by a group of scientists namely Ross King, Kenneth Whelan, Ffion Jones, Philip Reiser, Christopher Bryant, Stephen Muggleton, Douglas Kell and Steve Oliver.
- ↑ King, P.; Rowland, J.; Aubrey, W.; Liakata, M.; Markham, M.; Soldatova, L. N.; Whelan, K. E.; Clare, A.; Young, M.; Sparkes, A.; Oliver, S. G.; Pir, P. (2009). "The Robot Scientist Adam". Computer. 42 (7): 46–54. doi:10.1109/MC.2009.270. S2CID 13920692.
2010
- (Aber. Univ., 2010) ⇒ http://www.aber.ac.uk/en/cs/research/cb/projects/robotscientist/
- QUOTE: The Robot Scientists are multidisciplinary research projects involving expertise from Computer Science and Microbiology, and are projects of the Computational Biology research group at Aberystwyth University. We currently have two Robot Scientists, Adam (investigating yeast functional genomics) and Eve (investigating drug screening). The first Robot Scientist has been an active research project since 1999, and has been funded by the BBSRC. Related work concerning the Machine Learning concepts used by the Robot Scientists were funded by the EPSRC, LIMS work has been funded by the Royal Academy of Engineering and EPSRC, Grid work has been funded by the 1851 Commission, and Fault Detection work funded by the Nuffield Foundation.
The Robot Scientist is perhaps the first physical implementation of the task of Scientific Discovery in a microbiology laboratory. It represents the merging of increasingly automated and remotely controllable laboratory equipment and knowledge discovery techniques from Artificial Intelligence.
Picture of Adam in the LabAutomation of laboratory equipment (the “Robot” of Robot Scientist) has revolutionised laboratory practice by removing the “drudgery” of constructing many wet lab experiments by hand, allowing an increase in both the scope and scale of potential experiments. Most lab robots only require a simple description of the various chemical/ biological entities to be used in the experiments, along with their required volumes and where these entities are stored. Automation has also given rise to significantly increased productivity and a concomitant increase in the production of results and data requiring interpretation, giving rise to an “interpretation bottleneck” where the process of understanding the results is lagging behind the production of results.
- QUOTE: The Robot Scientists are multidisciplinary research projects involving expertise from Computer Science and Microbiology, and are projects of the Computational Biology research group at Aberystwyth University. We currently have two Robot Scientists, Adam (investigating yeast functional genomics) and Eve (investigating drug screening). The first Robot Scientist has been an active research project since 1999, and has been funded by the BBSRC. Related work concerning the Machine Learning concepts used by the Robot Scientists were funded by the EPSRC, LIMS work has been funded by the Royal Academy of Engineering and EPSRC, Grid work has been funded by the 1851 Commission, and Fault Detection work funded by the Nuffield Foundation.
2009
- (King et al., 2009) ⇒ Ross D. King, Jem Rowland, Stephen G. Oliver, Michael Young, Wayne Aubrey, Emma Byrne, Maria Liakata, Magdalena Markham, Pinar Pir, and Larisa N. Soldatova. (2009). “The Automation of Science.” In: Science, 324(5923). doi:10.1126/science.1165620
2004
- (King et al., 2004) ⇒ Ross D. King, Kenneth E. Whelan, Ffion M. Jones, Philip GK Reiser, Christopher H. Bryant, Stephen H. Muggleton, Douglas B. Kell, and Stephen G. Oliver. (2004). “Functional Genomic Hypothesis Generation and Experimentation by a Robot Scientist.” In: Nature, 427(6971).