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Saturday, January 30, 2010

The Automation of Science

Ross D. King and his collaborators report the development of Robot Scientist "Adam," which has autonomously generated functional genomics hypotheses about the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae and experimentally tested these hypotheses by using laboratory automation. See: Science 3 April 2009: Vol. 324. no. 5923, pp. 85 - 89
and http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/324/5923/85

A copy is available @ http://www.realscience.org.uk/Adamtherobotscientist.pdf

There is also this for Climate Science: http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=5337881532064470471&postID=2292395598974243071

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