Fitness landscape-based models and search strategies

Fitness landscape-based models and search strategies 

Landscape models are much more abstract than the laboratory technique-based models. As extensive as theory about evolution and optimization on fitness landscapes has become, there is still little work on matching a search algorithm to landscape properties. Additionally, much of this work is based on landscape properties that are presently very difficult to measure with any statistical significance for molecular landscapes. For these reasons, and for reasons of limited space, the landscape search results will be explained in much less detail than the laboratory-based techniques. This section is divided into four parts (i) definitions of terms used in fitness landscape studies and caveats about then-misuse (ii) review of models for fitness landscapes (iii) results from studies of search on fitness landscapes and (iv) conclusions from these results. 

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