# King 2004: Functional genomic hypothesis generation and experimentation by a robot scientist

> Ross D. King, Kenneth E. Whelan, Ffion M. Jones et al., 2004. 1 records on Mysteries Department cite it. The inquiry-framework report takes it as the…

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# Functional genomic hypothesis generation and experimentation by a robot scientist

Ross D. King, Kenneth E. Whelan, Ffion M. Jones et al., 2004. _Nature_.

Describes a robot scientist that formed hypotheses about gene function in yeast, chose which experiments to run, carried them out automatically and revised its hypotheses from the results.

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King, R. D., Whelan, K. E., Jones, F. M., Reiser, P. G. K., Bryant, C. H., Muggleton, S. H., Kell, D. B., & Oliver, S. G. (2004). Functional genomic hypothesis generation and experimentation by a robot scientist. Nature. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature02236
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