Opportunities And Obstacles For Deep Learning In Biology And Medicine

Perhaps more important than their conclusions was the writing process that led to those conclusions -- on Github, in the open, similar in fashion to open source software development. Writing a review openly on Github reduces bias and takes advantage of the wisdom of crowds. On the right is a snapshot of an exchange between myself and one of the authors in which we decided not to comment on certain questions we had considered earlier. We do not discuss these questions in the review, but this exchange clarifies how we think about them -- and that is the added value of the open writing process. The review is available as a preprint on bioRxiv and the latest version is available on Github.