I'm a bit conflicted about this. The fellow who wrote this is a biologist, biology is very much alive, it's where great discoveries are made, right now. And i

I'm a bit conflicted about this. The fellow who wrote this is a biologist, biology is very much alive, it's where great discoveries are made, right now. And it's a messy field. There is protein structure prediction, which in reality is machine learning, there is cladistics, which is applied statistics and string-matching, and there is protein-protein interaction, which is statistics combined with machine learning. The mathematics in those fields is mature, it was all done forty years ago. But I guess it still helps to have an understanding of the methods to find out if your model is any good.