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by ashtonbaker 2028 days ago
This is a really insightful question and I need to take some time to fully understand the ensuing discussion.

If my speculation is correct, then drug discovery should use a process of genetic programming, using something like this to score the resulting amino acid sequences. I'm wondering if an artificial process of evolution would be sufficient to satisfy the co-evolution assumption here.

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> I'm wondering if an artificial process of evolution would be sufficient to satisfy the co-evolution assumption here.

In principle yes, if you can generate a significant number of artificially evolved variants that are folded/functional.