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An Artificial Experimenter for Enzymatic Response Characterisation

An Artificial Experimenter for Enzymatic Response Characterisation
An Artificial Experimenter for Enzymatic Response Characterisation
Identifying the characteristics of biological systems through physical experimentation, is restricted by the resources available, which are limited in comparison to the size of the parameter spaces being investigated. New tools are required to assist scientists in the effective characterisation of such behaviours. By combining artificial intelligence techniques for active experiment selection, with a microfluidic experimentation platform that reduces the volumes of reactants required per experiment, a fully autonomous experimentation machine is in development to assist biological response characterisation. Part of this machine, an artificial experimenter, has been designed that automatically proposes hypotheses, then determines experiments to test those hypotheses and explore the parameter space. Using a multiple hypotheses approach that allows for representative models of response behaviours to be produced with few observations, the artificial experimenter has been employed in a laboratory setting, where it selected experiments for a human scientist to perform, to investigate the optical absorbance properties of NADH.
ISBN: 978-3-642-16183-4
42-56
Springer
Lovell, Chris
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Jones, Gareth
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Gunn, Steve
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Zauner, Klaus-Peter
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Lovell, Chris, Jones, Gareth, Gunn, Steve and Zauner, Klaus-Peter (2010) An Artificial Experimenter for Enzymatic Response Characterisation. In, 13th International Conference on Discovery Science. Springer, pp. 42-56.

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Abstract

Identifying the characteristics of biological systems through physical experimentation, is restricted by the resources available, which are limited in comparison to the size of the parameter spaces being investigated. New tools are required to assist scientists in the effective characterisation of such behaviours. By combining artificial intelligence techniques for active experiment selection, with a microfluidic experimentation platform that reduces the volumes of reactants required per experiment, a fully autonomous experimentation machine is in development to assist biological response characterisation. Part of this machine, an artificial experimenter, has been designed that automatically proposes hypotheses, then determines experiments to test those hypotheses and explore the parameter space. Using a multiple hypotheses approach that allows for representative models of response behaviours to be produced with few observations, the artificial experimenter has been employed in a laboratory setting, where it selected experiments for a human scientist to perform, to investigate the optical absorbance properties of NADH.

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Published date: 18 November 2010
Organisations: Agents, Interactions & Complexity, Electronic & Software Systems

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Local EPrints ID: 271593
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/271593
ISBN: ISBN: 978-3-642-16183-4
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Date deposited: 24 Sep 2010 15:46
Last modified: 14 Mar 2024 09:34

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Author: Chris Lovell
Author: Gareth Jones
Author: Steve Gunn
Author: Klaus-Peter Zauner

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