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Genesis-DB: a database for autonomous laboratory systems.

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Peer-reviewed

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Article

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Authors

Gower, Alexander H 
Kronström, Filip 
Halle, Rushikesh 
Mahamuni, Vinay 

Abstract

SUMMARY: Artificial intelligence (AI)-driven laboratory automation-combining robotic labware and autonomous software agents-is a powerful trend in modern biology. We developed Genesis-DB, a database system designed to support AI-driven autonomous laboratories by providing software agents access to large quantities of structured domain information. In addition, we present a new ontology for modeling data and metadata from autonomously performed yeast microchemostat cultivations in the framework of the Genesis robot scientist system. We show an example of how Genesis-DB enables the research life cycle by modeling yeast gene regulation, guiding future hypotheses generation and design of experiments. Genesis-DB supports AI-driven discovery through automated reasoning and its design is portable, generic, and easily extensible to other AI-driven molecular biology laboratory data and beyond. AVAILABILITY AND IMPLEMENTATION: Genesis-DB code and installation instructions are available at the GitHub repository https://github.com/TW-Genesis/genesis-database-system.git. The database use case demo code and data are also available through GitHub (https://github.com/TW-Genesis/genesis-database-demo.git). The ontology can be downloaded here: https://github.com/TW-Genesis/genesis-ontology/releases/download/v0.0.23/genesis.owl. The ontology term descriptions (including mappings to existing ontologies) and maintenance standard operating procedures can be found at: https://github.com/TW-Genesis/genesis-ontology.

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46 Information and Computing Sciences, 4602 Artificial Intelligence, Networking and Information Technology R&D (NITRD)

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Bioinform Adv

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Journal ISSN

2635-0041
2635-0041

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3

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Oxford University Press (OUP)