Automated research systems and methods for researching systems
First Claim
1. A system that facilitates management of a biotechnology and/or biomedical research process, comprising:
- a research component in communication with the biotechnology and/or biomedical research process which operates according to conditions of the process, which research component at least one of monitors and controls the process using modularized code;
a standards-based model employed to modularize control code into testable blocks such that higher order modules are built from tested, approved modules; and
a rules engine component that processes one or more rules in association with the modularized code to affect conditions of the process in real time.
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Abstract
Systems and methods that provide for automated research into the workings of one or more studied systems include automated research software modules that communicate with domain knowledge bases, research professionals, automated laboratories experiment objects, and data analysis processes, wherein automatically selected experiment objects can be run at an automated laboratory to produce experimental results, and the subsequent data-processing providing automated guidance to a next round of experiment choice and automated research. An Experiment Director rules engine chooses Experiment Objects based on user input through a Query Manager.
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6 Claims
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1. A system that facilitates management of a biotechnology and/or biomedical research process, comprising:
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a research component in communication with the biotechnology and/or biomedical research process which operates according to conditions of the process, which research component at least one of monitors and controls the process using modularized code; a standards-based model employed to modularize control code into testable blocks such that higher order modules are built from tested, approved modules; and a rules engine component that processes one or more rules in association with the modularized code to affect conditions of the process in real time. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4)
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5. A automated, in integrated management, modeling and measurement system, comprising . . .
a method for a manager to integrate monitoring, modeling and management of a system. comprising translating into computer form the mental models of managers, merging the formalized mental models with scientific models for explaining relationships and dynamics in gathered and/or measured data, making the merged modeling layer transparent and accessible to managers and adjustably and robustly responsive to their queries, and designing the data-gathering to be flexibly and rapidly adjustable to the data needs of the modeling layer and thus to the manager'"'"'s queries as the manager anticipates a decision
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6. A method for automating research of a studied system comprising the steps of
providing an automated research system having at least on computer software module, a database component for holding at least two Experiment Objects, an Experiment Director (ExpDir) Module, a user interface, a computer, a data processing module, an experimental result analysis module, a database object for holding at least one first studied-system knowledge model (or knowledge-base assembly), a research progress evaluation module (RPEM), a module for comparing results to said first SSKM, updating 1st SSKM to a 2nd SSKM, comparing SSKM-2 and sskm-1 to evaluate increase in VOI against prior research goal providing at least a first studied system providing at least two EOs providing a research goal via the USG causing the ExpDir to evaluate the SSKM-1 (with optional interaction of query manager, QM), against the USG to yield an info gap analysis result passing the gap result to the INEM (information needed evaluation module) to analyze the highest probability path to reduce the gap, producing a result out-=info needed passing info needed to ExpChooser, with ExpChooser having access to the LOPE, yielding choice of at least one EO passing the chosen EO to ExpDir to direct at least one laboratory to process experiment the lab running the experiment yielding parameter results passing results to data processing engine/module passing processed data to the research progress evaluation module (RPEM), updating the SSKM index n+1 and looping unless gap=0; - if gap=zero STOP
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