[thfuran]

>Yes, there are occasional exceptions where you don't have to repeat or replicate the experiments reported in a paper to verify them. But that is very much the exception.

And even in this exceptional case, the algorithm itself is interesting above and beyond the fact of its existence.

[kragen]

It is, but if the algorithm produces a result such as a protein structure or a sorting network that is itself novel and verifiable, you can very reasonably publish that result separately. As long as it doesn't require knowing the search algorithm to replicate your result that the sorting network sorts correctly, which it wouldn't.