A big downside too is incorrect usage of ML, where a more mechanistic model would be more useful. Many recent systems biology research is full of papers that lo

A big downside too is incorrect usage of ML, where a more mechanistic model would be more useful. Many recent systems biology research is full of papers that look as ridiculous as someone trying to discover Newton Laws of Motion with an SVM. Hopefully things like probabilistic programming bridge the gap between ML and classical models.