Publications
2010
Dobson, P. D., Smallbone, K., Jameson, D., Simeonidis, E., Lanthaler, K., Pir, P., Lu, C., Swainston, N., Dunn, W. B., Fisher, P., Hull, D., Brown, M., Oshota, O., Stanford, N. J., Kell, D. B., King, R. D., Oliver, S. G., Stevens, R. D., Mendes, P. Further developments towards a genome-scale metabolic model of yeast. BMC Systems Biology (2010)
Sparkes, A., Aubrey, W., Byrne, E., Clare, A., Khan, M. N., Liakata, M., Markham, M., Rowland, J., Soldatova, L. N., Whelan, K. E., Young, M. and King, R. D. (2010) Towards Robot Scientists for autonomous scientific discovery. Automated Experimentation 2010, 2:1 doi:10.1186/1759-4499-2-1. CADAIR archive.
Sparkes, A., King, R. D., Aubrey, W., Benway, M., Byrne, E., Clare, A., Liakata, M., Markham, M., Whelan, K. E., Young, M., Rowland, J. (2010) An Integrated Laboratory Robotic System for Autonomous Discovery of Gene Function JALA 15 (1), 33-40. CADAIR archive.
Qi, D., King, R. D., Hopkins, A. L., Bickerton, G. J. and Soldatova, L. (2010) An Ontology for Description of Drug Discovery Investigations. J. Integrative Bioinformatics, 7 (3), doi:10.2390/biecoll-jib-2010-126. CADAIR archive.
Ray, O., Whelan, K. King, R. (2010) Logic-based steady-state analysis and revision of metabolic networks with revision. Third International Workshop on Intelligent Informatics in Biology and Medicine (IIBM 2010).
2009
Schierz, A. C. and King, R. D. (2009) Drugs and Drug-like compounds: Discriminating Approved Pharmaceuticals from Screening-Library Compounds. LNCS Pattern Recognition in Bioinformatics. 331-343
King, R.D., Rowland, J., Aubrey, W., Liakata, M., Markham, M., Soldatova, L.N., Whelan, K.E., Clare, C., Sparkes, A., Oliver, S.G., Pir, P.,& Young, M. (2009) The Robot Scientist Adam. IEEE Computer 42 (8), 46-54.
Lu, C. & King, R.D. (2009) An investigation into the population abundance distribution of mRNAs, proteins, and metabolites in biological systems. Bioinformatics 25, 2020-2027.
Ray, O., Clare, A., Liakata, M., Soldatova, L., Whelan, K., King, R. (2009) Towards the Automation of Scientific Method. 19th International Conference on Inductive Logic Programming (ILP 2009).
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)
Ray, O., Whelan, K.E., King, R.D. (2009) A nonmonotonic logical approach for modelling and revising metabolic networks. International Workshop on Intelligent Informatics in Biology and Medicine (IIBM 2009).
2008
King, R.D., Soldatova, L.N. (2008) Formalising phylogenetics experiments: ontologies and logical inference. In Symbiotic Relationships between Semantic Web and Knowledge Engineering. AAAI Spring Symposium SS-08-07, 59-62.
Srinivasan, A., King, R.D. (2008) Incremental Identification of Qualitative Models of Biological Systems using Inductive Logic Programming. Journal of Machine Learning Research 9, 1475-1533.
Coghill, G.M., Srinivasan, A., King, R.D. (2008) Qualitative System Identification from Imperfect Data. Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research 32, 825-877
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.
Before 2008
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