Functional genomic hypothesis generation and experimentation by a robot scientist

Nature

Volumn 427, Issue 6971, 2004, Pages 247-252

  King, Ross D ^a   Whelan, Kenneth E ^a   Jones, Ffion M ^a   Reiser, Philip G K ^a   Bryant, Christopher H ^b   Muggleton, Stephen H ^c   Kell, Douglas B ^d   Oliver, Stephen G ^d  

^a ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b ROBERT GORDON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACIDS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GROWTH KINETICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METABOLITES; MUTAGENESIS; YEAST;

GENE FUNCTION;

ROBOTICS;

AROMATIC AMINO ACID;

ROBOTICS;

AMINO ACID SYNTHESIS; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUXOTROPHY; EXPERIMENTATION; GENOMICS; LABORATORY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROBOTICS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SCIENCE; SIMULATION;

ALGORITHMS; AMINO ACIDS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; EFFICIENCY; GENE DELETION; GENES, FUNGAL; GENOMICS; HUMANS; LEARNING; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OPEN READING FRAMES; PHENOTYPE; PROBABILITY; RESEARCH; RESEARCH DESIGN; RESEARCH PERSONNEL; ROBOTICS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SOFTWARE; TIME FACTORS;

SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 1642336155     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature02236     Document Type: Article

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