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Indicators for the use of robotic labs in basic biomedical research: a literature analysis
Robotic labs, in which experiments are carried out entirely by robots, have the potential to provide a reproducible and transparent foundation for performing basic biomedical laboratory experiments. In this article, we investigate whether these labs could be applicable in current experimental practi...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5681851/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29134146 http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3997 |
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description | Robotic labs, in which experiments are carried out entirely by robots, have the potential to provide a reproducible and transparent foundation for performing basic biomedical laboratory experiments. In this article, we investigate whether these labs could be applicable in current experimental practice. We do this by text mining 1,628 papers for occurrences of methods that are supported by commercial robotic labs. Using two different concept recognition tools, we find that 86%–89% of the papers have at least one of these methods. This and our other results provide indications that robotic labs can serve as the foundation for performing many lab-based experiments. |
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spelling | pubmed-56818512017-11-13 Indicators for the use of robotic labs in basic biomedical research: a literature analysis Groth, Paul Cox, Jessica PeerJ Biochemistry Robotic labs, in which experiments are carried out entirely by robots, have the potential to provide a reproducible and transparent foundation for performing basic biomedical laboratory experiments. In this article, we investigate whether these labs could be applicable in current experimental practice. We do this by text mining 1,628 papers for occurrences of methods that are supported by commercial robotic labs. Using two different concept recognition tools, we find that 86%–89% of the papers have at least one of these methods. This and our other results provide indications that robotic labs can serve as the foundation for performing many lab-based experiments. PeerJ Inc. 2017-11-08 /pmc/articles/PMC5681851/ /pubmed/29134146 http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3997 Text en ©2017 Groth and Cox http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, reproduction and adaptation in any medium and for any purpose provided that it is properly attributed. For attribution, the original author(s), title, publication source (PeerJ) and either DOI or URL of the article must be cited. |
spellingShingle | Biochemistry Groth, Paul Cox, Jessica Indicators for the use of robotic labs in basic biomedical research: a literature analysis |
title | Indicators for the use of robotic labs in basic biomedical research: a literature analysis |
title_full | Indicators for the use of robotic labs in basic biomedical research: a literature analysis |
title_fullStr | Indicators for the use of robotic labs in basic biomedical research: a literature analysis |
title_full_unstemmed | Indicators for the use of robotic labs in basic biomedical research: a literature analysis |
title_short | Indicators for the use of robotic labs in basic biomedical research: a literature analysis |
title_sort | indicators for the use of robotic labs in basic biomedical research: a literature analysis |
topic | Biochemistry |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5681851/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29134146 http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3997 |
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