Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 September 2023
The goal of this chapter is to explore and review the role of artificial intelligence (AI) in scientific discovery from data. Specifically, we present AI as a useful tool for advancing a No-Boundary Thinking (NBT) approach to bioinformatics and biomedical informatics. NBT is an agnostic methodology for scientific discovery and education that accesses, integrates, and synthesizes data, information, and knowledge from all disciplines to define important problems, leading to innovative and significant questions that can subsequently be addressed by individuals or collaborative teams with diverse expertise. Given this definition, AI is uniquely poised to advance NBT as it has the potential to employ data science for discovery by using information and knowledge from multiple disciplines. We present three recent AI approaches to data analysis that each contribute to a foundation for an NBT research strategy by either incorporating expert knowledge, automating machine learning, or both. We end with a vision for fully automating the discovery process while embracing NBT.
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