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by ngrilly 716 days ago
> As a working hypothesis, protein folding assumes that a protein folds into the globally lowest energy configuration. [...] If there's a region in configuration space with a local minimum and high enough energy 'walls', this might be stable enough for the protein to be stable.

Sounds like gradient descent :)

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Well, or hill climbing in general.