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In Nature‘s February technology feature on ‘deep learning‘, a kind of artificial intelligence whose usage is spiking in life science research, author Sarah Webb points readers to a ‘comprehensive, crowd-sourced’ review of the field.

Available as a preprint on bioRxiv (ETA: and now online in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface), the review is indeed comprehensive: the PDF runs to 123 pages and 552 references, and has been downloaded nearly 27,500 times since May 2017. But it was an intriguing footnote on the article’s title page that really piqued my interest: “Author order was determined with a randomized algorithm”. Continue reading →