Indicators for the use of robotic labs in basic biomedical research
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- Accepted
- Subject Areas
- Biochemistry, Science Policy
- Keywords
- robotic labs, indicators, text mining, methods
- Copyright
- © 2017 Groth et al.
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- This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, 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 Preprints) and either DOI or URL of the article must be cited.
- Cite this article
- 2017. Indicators for the use of robotic labs in basic biomedical research. PeerJ Preprints 5:e2974v1 https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.2974v1
Abstract
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 are applicable in current experimental practice. We do this by text mining 1628 papers for occurrences of methods that are supported by commercial robotic labs. We find that 62% 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.
Author Comment
This is a preprint submission to PeerJ Preprints.