Automated Research Workflows for Accelerated Discovery Closing the Knowledge Discovery Loop (2022) / Chapter Skim
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to describe scientific research processes that are emerging across a variety of disciplines and fields. ARWs integrate computation, laboratory automation, and tools from artificial intelligence in the performance of tasks that make up the research process, such as designing experiments, observations, and simulations; collecting and analyzing data; and learning from the results to inform further experiments, observations, and simulations.
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techniques play an increasingly important role in ARWs, from uses in data exploration and analysis to the driving and directing of the larger research process as a closed-loop system where AI and ML analyses of results direct the next cycle of experimental design and planning. The committee believes that ARWs constitute the next significant advance in the ongoing revolution in scientific research driven by advances in information technology and associated hardware infrastructure.
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The committee defined the subtopics for the study and identified more than 25 outstanding experts to participate in the workshop. Presentation and discussion topics included research use cases, mathematical and algorithmic barriers, trajectories for supporting tools and systems, standards and social context, policy and educational implications, communities and sustainable funding, and transparency and accountability (see Appendix A for the full agenda and the National Academies' website for copies of the presentations)
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• What are the barriers to implementing ARWs and how do they operate in different disciplines? These barriers include inadequate workflow literacy, resistance to adoption of scientific automation, insufficient appreciation of dangers of p-hacking, selection bias and model overfitting, and concerns about privacy protections of data and procedures (especially for cloud based workflow systems)
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This examination feeds into Chapter 5's consideration of the barriers and opportunities across fields, to which the committee offers its recommendations. Chapter 6 presents the committee's findings and recommendations and offers concluding thoughts and potential next steps for researchers and institutions in both the public and private sectors, funders, and policy makers.
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