article Experiment Automation

Machine learning anomaly detection of automated HPLC experiments in the cloud laboratory

Filipp Gusev, Benjamin C. Kline, Ryan Quinn, Anqin Xu, Ben Smith, Brian Frezza, Olexandr Isayev

Digital Discovery Vol. 4(12) pp. 3445–3454 2025

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Autonomous experiments are vulnerable to unforeseen adverse events.

Abstract

Autonomous experiments are vulnerable to unforeseen adverse events. We developed a transferable ML framework that flags affected HPLC runs in real time and provides expert-level quality control without human oversight.

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@article{Gusev2025a,
  author = {Gusev, Filipp and Kline, Benjamin C. and Quinn, Ryan and Xu, Anqin and Smith, Ben and Frezza, Brian and Isayev, Olexandr},
  title = {Machine learning anomaly detection of automated HPLC experiments in the cloud laboratory},
  year = {2025},
  journal = {Digital Discovery},
  volume = {4},
  number = {12},
  pages = {3445--3454},
  doi = {10.1039/d5dd00253b},
  url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/D5DD00253B},
  publisher = {Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)},
  keywords = {machine learning},
  researchAreas = {experiment-automation},
  highlight = {Autonomous experiments are vulnerable to unforeseen adverse events.}
}

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