Publications
King, R. D., Rowland, J., Oliver, S. G., Young, M., Aubrey, W., Byrne, E., Liakata, M., Markham, M., Pir, P., Soldatova, L. N., Sparkes, A., Whelan, K. E., Clare, A. (2009) The Automation of Science. Science 324(5923):85-89, 3rd April 2009. (preprint pdf, before final corrections)
Soldatova, L., Aubrey, W., King, R. D. and Clare, A. (2008) The EXACT description of biomedical protocols. Bioinformatics 2008 24: i295-i303. Special issue for ISMB 2008.
Whelan, K. E. and King, R. D. (2008) Using a logical model to predict the growth of yeast. BMC Bioinformatics 2008, 9:97, CADAIR archive.
Byrne, E. (2007) Optimising the flow of experiments to a Robot Scientist with Multi-Objective Evolutionary Algorithms. In Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO) 2007 pdf
King, R. D and Benway, M. (2006) Robot Scientist: an Autonomous Platform for Systems Biology Discovery. Poster at SBS 12th Annual Conference and Exhibition. pdf
Soldatova, L., Clare, A., Sparkes, A. and King, R. D. (2006) An ontology for a robot scientist. Bioinformatics 2006 22: 464-471. Also in ISMB 2006. Archived in Cadair.
Foulston, C. and Clare, A. (2006) A framework for Grid-based failure detection in an automated laboratory robot system. Poster in All Hands Meeting 2006. Preprint PDF
Whelan, K. E. and King, R. D. (2004) Intelligent software for laboratory automation. Trends in Biotechnology 22 (9): 440-445.
King R.D, Whelan K.E, Jones F.M, Reiser P,J,K Bryant C.H, Muggleton S, Kell D.B, Oliver S (2004) Functional Genomic Hypothesis Generation and Experimentation by a Robot Scientist Nature 427 pp 247-252. PDF
Bryant, C.H., Muggleton, S.H., Oliver, S.G., Kell, D.B., Reiser, P.G.K, & King, R.D. (2001) Combining inductive logic programming, active learning, and robotics to discover the function of genes. Electronic Transactions in Artificial Intelligence 6:12 pp. 1-36. Preprint PDF
Reiser, P.G.K., King, R.D., Kell, D.B., Muggleton, S.H., Bryant, C.H. & Oliver, S.G (2001) Developing a logical model of yeast metabolism. Electronic Transactions in Artificial Intelligence 5, 223-244. Preprint PDF