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"ROBOT SCIENTISTS could provide a useful tool for managing such data and knowledge, making scientific procedures easier and more efficient. This kind of learning will become even more important as we move further towards integrative and predictive biology in the era of Web 2.0 and the Semantic Web." https://lnkd.in/dMfcK8Q View in LinkedIn

ABE ROBOT EXPERIMENTS. "In order to give ABE the ability to run experiments like Adam, Wikswo’s group is currently developing “laboratory-on-a-chip” technology that can be controlled by Eureqa. This will allow ABE to design and perform a wide variety of basic biology experiments. Their initial effort is focused on developing a microfluidics device that can test cell." metabolism.".” https://lnkd.in/eGii4i4 View in LinkedIn

BREAKTHROUGH MACHINE. "The research is being heralded as a potential breakthrough for science in the Petabyte Age, where computers try to find regularities in massive datasets that are too big and complex for the human mind and its standard computational tools." (Eurequa). https://lnkd.in/dEC3j_P View in LinkedIn

"IN JUST OVER a day, a powerful computer program accomplished a feat that took physicists centuries to complete: extrapolating the laws of motion from a pendulum’s swings. Developed by Cornell researchers, the program deduced the natural laws without a shred of knowledge about physics or geometry." (Eurequa). https://lnkd.in/dEC3j_P View in LinkedIn

MASSIVE TRANSITIONS. "These observations prompted the hypothesis that emergence of new major groups of organisms often, perhaps typically, involves massive gene gain via HGT (in microbes) or extensive, in some cases, whole genome duplication (in eukaryotes) followed by gradual genome streamlining via gene loss in each of the lineages." (HGT = horizontal gene transfer). https://lnkd.in/dSemZpD View in LinkedIn

STEADY AS WELL AS BURSTS. "Several large-scale reconstructions of microbial genome evolution suggest that gene loss occurs in a roughly clock-like manner whereas gene gain tends to be episodic, occurring in bursts that involve acquisition of many genes over a short time." https://lnkd.in/dSemZpD View in LinkedIn

DOMESTICATED MOBILE ELEMENTS. "These examples highlight the apparent major route of evolution of HGT vehicles, through stepwise domestication and “enslavement” of selfish genetic elements, such as plasmids and viruses, whereby the hosts exploit the inherent ability of such elements to transfer genetic material." (HGT = horizontal gene transfer). https://lnkd.in/dSemZpD View in LinkedIn

DONATE GENES. "Notably, the GTAs confer on their carriers the ability to donate rather than acquire genetic material. Such a capacity could be adaptive in the context of utilization of “public goods” by microbial communities. The wide spread of GTAs appears to present strong evidence of evolvability of HGT." (HGT = horizontal gene transfer; GTAs = gene transfer agents). https://lnkd.in/dSemZpD View in LinkedIn

DISTANT GENE SWAPS. "The GTAs then infect other bacteria or archaea, and the transferred DNA integrates into the recipient genome. In marine bacterial communities, the rate of GTA-mediated gene transfer appears to be quite high and often involves distantly related organisms." (GTAs = gene transfer agents). https://lnkd.in/dSemZpD View in LinkedIn