Machine learning has become a powerful tool for systems biologists, from diagnosing cancer to optimizing kinetic models and predicting the state, growth dynamics, or type of a cell. Potential predictions from complex biological data sets obtained by "omics" experiments seem endless, but are often not the main objective of biological research. Often we want to understand the molecular mechanisms of a disease to develop new therapies, or we need to justify a crucial decision that is derived from a prediction. In order to gain such knowledge from data, machine learning models need to be extended. A recent trend to achieve this is to design "interpretable" models. However, the notions around interpretability are sometimes ambiguous, and a universal recipe for building well-interpretable models is missing. With this work, we want to familiarize systems biologists with the concept of model interpretability in machine learning. We consider data sets, data preparation, machine learning methods, and software tools relevant to omics research in systems biology. Finally, we try to answer the question: "What is interpretability?" We introduce views from the interpretable machine learning community and propose a scheme for categorizing studies on omics data. We then apply these tools to review and categorize recent studies where predictive machine learning models have been constructed from non-sequential omics data.

Department of Biomedical Engineering Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Communication Brno University of Technology Brno Czech Republic

Department of Functional and Evolutionary Ecology Faculty of Life Sciences Molecular Systems Biology University of Vienna Vienna Austria

Vienna Metabolomics Center Faculty of Life Sciences University of Vienna Vienna Austria

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