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The robot scientist : application to functional genomics

Reference	E11552
Principal Investigator / Supervisor	Professor Ross King
Co-Investigators / Co-Supervisors	Professor Douglas Kell, Professor Stephen Muggleton, Professor Stephen Oliver, Mr Jem Rowland
Institution	Aberystwyth University
Department	Computer Science
Funding type	Research
Value (£)	313,380
Status	Completed
Type	Research Grant
Start date	24/01/2000
End date	24/05/2003
Duration	40 months

Abstract

We shall provide a physical implementation of a scientific active learning system, and apply it to the problem of functional genomics. The system will: use machine learning to form an initial hypotheses set, devise growth experiments to select between competing hypotheses, direct a robot to perform these experiments, automatically analyse the experimental results, revise its hypothesis set in the light of experimental results, and then repeat the cycle until the users criteria for selection of the best hypothesis are met. In this way the system will automatically produce useful knowledge about genes of unknown function.

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Committee	Closed Committee - Engineering & Biological Systems (EBS)
Research Topics	X – not assigned to a current Research Topic
Research Priority	X – Research Priority information not available
Research Initiative	X - not in an Initiative
Funding Scheme	X – not Funded via a specific Funding Scheme

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