research engine
30 Oct 2021 - 16 Dec 2022
- What would a computational research engine look like?
- Explicit goals and actions in a hierarchy
- "cure cancer"
- "find biomarkers for PD1 resistance"
- 2022 science imperatives (Lisa B)
- drive unique t cells into tumors
- promote multi-antigen nresponses
- understand tipping poin between anti0-tumor immunity and AE
- understand the mechanism of agonistic CD40 treatment in humans
- understand mechanism in solid tumors
- so need to collect more tumors, systematically
- Decision support
- Adaptive Trials
- Shrager, Science as Search
- air-traffic control metaphor
- Sounds like OKRs, for better or worse
- obvious questions:
- is scientific search formalizable?
- Is it practically formalizable?
- Is it cost effective to do so?
- Refs
- H.A. Simon, P. Langley, and G.L. Bradshaw, “Scientific Discovery as Problem Solving,” Synthese 47 (1981): 1-27; J. Shrager and P. Langley, Eds., Computational Models of Scientific Discovery and Theory Formation (San Mateo, CA: Morgan Kaufmann, 1990).