An Integrated Laboratory Robotic System for Autonomous Discovery of Gene Function

Journal of Laboratory Automation

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 33-40

  Sparkes, Andrew ^a   King, Ross D ^a   Aubrey, Wayne ^a   Benway, Michael ^c   Byrne, Emma ^d   Clare, Amanda ^a   Liakata, Maria ^a   Markham, Magdalena ^b   Whelan, Kenneth E ^a   Young, Michael ^b   Rowland, Jem ^a  

^a ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c Caliper Life Sciences   (United States)

^d MIDDLESEX UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

discovery; gene function; laboratory automation; robot scientist; yeast growth; yeast metabolism

Indexed keywords

GENE FUNCTION; GROWTH CURVES; HUMAN INTERVENTION; HYPOTHESIS FORMATION; LABORATORY AUTOMATION; MACHINE INTELLIGENCE; PHYSICAL ASPECTS; ROBOTIC SYSTEMS; SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE; YEAST GROWTH; YEAST METABOLISM; YEAST SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; YEAST STRAIN;

AUTOMATION; CONCEPTUAL DESIGN; DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS; LABORATORIES; MACHINE DESIGN; METABOLISM; ROBOTS;

YEAST;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GROWTH RATE; HYPOTHESIS; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INFORMATION STORAGE; LABORATORY AUTOMATION; ROBOTICS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 73049103320     PISSN: 22110682     EISSN: 15402452     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jala.2009.10.001     Document Type: Article

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