The automation of science

Science

Volumn 324, Issue 5923, 2009, Pages 85-89

  King, Ross D ^a   Rowland, Jem ^a   Oliver, Stephen G ^b   Young, Michael ^c   Aubrey, Wayne ^a   Byrne, Emma ^a   Liakata, Maria ^a   Markham, Magdalena ^a   Pir, Pinar ^b   Soldatova, Larisa N ^a   Sparkes, Andrew ^a   Whelan, Kenneth E ^a   Clare, Amanda ^a  

^a ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

1 ACYLGLYCEROPHOSPHATE ACYLTRANSFERASE; 2 AMINOADIPATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; 5 FORMYLTETRAHYDROFOLATE CYCLOLIGASE; ASPARTATE OXIDASE; FUNGAL PROTEIN; GLUCOSAMINE 6 PHOSPHATE DEAMINASE; GLUTAMINASE; LEVO THREONINE 3 DEHYDROGENASE; MALEYLACETOACETATE ISOMERASE; MANNITOL 1 PHOSPHATE 5 DEHYDROGENASE; PURINE NUCLEOSIDE PHOSPHORYLASE; PYRIDOXAL KINASE; SERINE ACETYLTRANSFERASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BIOMASS; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GENOMICS; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; ROBOTICS; SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY; YEAST;

ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BIOMASS; FUNCTIONAL GENOMICS; FUNGUS GROWTH; KNOWLEDGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROBOTICS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SCIENCE;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATION; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; COMPUTERS; ENZYMES; GENES, FUNGAL; GENOMICS; PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; ROBOTICS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SOFTWARE;

SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 64249139133     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1165620     Document Type: Article

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23. This work was funded by grants from the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council to R.D.K., S.G.O., and M.Y.; by a SRIF 2 award to R.D.K.; by fellowships from the Royal Commission for the Great Exhibition of 1851, the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, and the Royal Academy of Engineering to A.C.; and by a RC-UK Fellowship to L.N.S. We thank D. Struttman for help with yeast and M. Benway for help with Adam.