Towards Robot Scientists for autonomous scientific discovery

Automated Experimentation

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

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

^a ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c MIDDLESEX UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATION; COMPUTER; COMPUTER MODEL; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; REPRODUCIBILITY; REVIEW; ROBOTICS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE; SCIENTIST;

APLECTRUM; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 77956355606     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17594499     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1759-4499-2-1     Document Type: Review

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