The rise and fall of supervised machine learning techniques

摘要

Machine learning is of immense importance in bioinformatics and biomedical science more generally (Larranaga et al., 2006; Tarca et al., 2007). In particular, supervised machine learning has been used to great effect in numerous bioinformatics prediction methods. Through many years of editing and reviewing manuscripts, we noticed that some supervised machine learning techniques seem to be gaining in popularity while others seemed, at least to our eyes, to be looking 'unfashionable'.