Thanks for the paper, I’ll check it out; this isn’t my speciality so I’m definitely learning something. Just one minor clarification: > Maybe read the paper …

Thanks for the paper, I’ll check it out; this isn’t my speciality so I’m definitely learning something. Just one minor clarification: > Maybe read the paper … before assuming that it doesn't work I don’t assume that. In fact, I know that using ML works on many problems in genetics. What I’m less convinced by is that we can expect a breakthrough due to ML any time soon, partly because conventional techniques (including ML) already have a handle on some current problems in genetics, and because there isn’t really a specific (or flashy) hard, algorithmic problem like there is in structural biology. Rather, there’s lots of stuff where I expect to see steady incremental improvement. In fact, in Wikipedia’s list of unsolved biological problems [1] there isn’t a single one that I’d characterise specifically as a question from the field of genetics (as a geneticist, that’s slightly depressing). But my question was even more innocent than that: I’m not even that sceptical, I’m just not aware of anything and genuinely wanted an answer. And the paper you’ve posted might provide just that, so go and do my research now. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unsolved_problems_in_biology https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unsolved_problems_in_b...