摘要 |
A preferred embodiment of the present invention comprises computer-implemented methods for providing user assistance in biomachine design that, first, retrieve one or more digitally-represented candidate design items stored in a bioengineering knowledge base by translating requirements provided for a biomachine according to a bioengineering domain model into queries to the knowledge base for design items capable of implementing the biomachine according to the domain model; then second, construct one or more digitally-represented candidate biomachines from the candidate design items by arranging part information represented in the candidate design items according to a selected structure, and next evaluate the candidate biomachines according to bioengineering operability knowledge associated with the candidate design items, wherein operability knowledge associated with a design item specifies requirements for that item to inter-operate with other design items. The methods may backtrack. If at least one candidate biomachine has not been satisfactorily evaluated, the methods backtracking to one or more of these steps. The invention further encompasses variations of these methods, systems and program products performing these methods, data products including digital representations of design knowledge used by these methods, data products with digital representations of designed biomachines. Also encompassed are further steps of constructing or synthesizing biomachines along with the actual biomachines themselves.
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